Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "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. A Latin version of this phrase, "Ars gratia artis", is used as a slogan by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears in the circle around the roaring head of Leo the Lion in their motion picture logo. "L'art pour l'art" is credited to Theophile Gautier (1811–1872). Some correctly argue Gautier was not the first to write those words: they appear in the works of Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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