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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

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'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).

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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) - Benjamin Constant

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