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 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 by The most famous "ars grammatica" since late antiquity has been that composed by Donatus. Two "ars grammatica" circulate under the name Donatus. The first, the "Ars Minor", is a brief overview of the eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, participle, conjunction, preposition, and interjection ("nomen, pronomen, verbum, adverbium, participium, conjunctio, praepositio, interjectio"). The text is presented entirely in a question-and-answer format (e.g. "How many numbers does a noun have?" "Two: singular