L'art pour l'art, sans but, car tout but dénature l'art
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"L'art pour l'art, sans but, car tout but dénature l'art" (Art for art's sake, without purpose, because all purpose perverts art) is a note from the diaries of French writer Benjamin Constant (February 10, 1804). The phrase refers to a conversation with Henry Crabb Robinson, an English student of Schelling.
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