
“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.”
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
“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.”
“[W]hat makes a libertarian in America a “right-winger” makes him a “liberal” in most of Europe.”
2010s, 2018, Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)
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
2010s, The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice (2018)
“I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake.”
New York Magazine (11 July 1988), p. 24
1980s
2010s, Confederation Again (July 2018)
Source: Selden Rodman (1957) Conversations with Artists, New York, p. 148