“[W]hat is now and then attempted is perhaps "for art's sake."”

— Alice Meynell

He that saveth his art shall lose it.
Meynell alludes to the saying of Jesus: "He that saveth his life shall lose it" (Mark 8:35).
Source: Mary, the Mother of Jesus: An Essay (1912), Ch. X. "In Churches", p. 134

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "[W]hat is now and then attempted is perhaps "for art's sake."" by Alice Meynell?

Alice Meynell13

English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist 1847–1922

Related quotes

“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“[W]hat makes a libertarian in America a “right-winger” makes him a “liberal” in most of Europe.”

Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit

2010s, 2018, Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

“[W]hat is most important to us, most of the time, is not the objective results of a decision, but the subjective results.”

Barry Schwartz book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Source: The Paradox of Choice (2004)

“Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voilà la religion que je cherche....
Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, (19 April 1872), published in Calmann Lévy (ed.) Correspondance (1812-1876). Eng. Transl by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort in Letters of George Sand Vol. III, p. 242