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 Magna (Gerolamo Cardano) is square roots of negative numbers appear naturally in this context. However, "q"/4 + "p"/27 never happens to be negative in the specific cases in which Cardano applies the formula. Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano) The Ars Magna ("The Great Art") is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title "Artis Magnæ, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus" ("Book number one about The Great Art, or The Rules of Algebra"). There was a second edition in Cardano's lifetime, published in 1570. It is considered one of the three greatest scientific