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
Ars grammatica book contains one of the most complete lists of types of dactylic hexameters in antiquity, including the "teres versus", which may be the so-called golden line. The "Ars" of Diomedes still exists in a complete form (although probably abridged). It was first published in a collection of Latin Grammarians printed at Venice by Nicolas Jenson in about 1476. The best edition of Diomedes's "Ars Grammatica" is in "Grammatici Latini" vol. I by Heinrich Keil. Ars grammatica An ars grammatica () is a generic or proper title for surveys of Latin grammar. Extant works known as "Ars grammatica" have been written