intrinsic value of art Quotes

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.