Art for art's sake Art for art's sake "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, "l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function. Such works are sometimes described as "autotelic", from the Greek "autoteles", "complete in itself", a concept that has been expanded to embrace "inner-directed" or "self-motivated" human beings. The term is sometimes used commercially. A Latin version of this phrase ("ARS GRATIA ARTIS") is used as a motto by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears
Artis Lazdiņš Artis Lazdiņš Artis Lazdiņš (born 3 May 1986) is a Latvian footballer, currently playing for FK Jelgava in the Latvian Higher League. He is also a member of Latvia national football team. Artis Lazdiņš started playing football in his early childhood being taken to trainings to his local team "FK Limbaži" (coach : Valdis Matīss) by his father. In 2000 his family decided to move to the USA. Artis then continued playing football in an American-Ukrainian football (soccer) academy "Chornomorets-USA" in NYC. In 2004, after graduating from the Julia Richman High School, he returned to Latvia and played for FK