#sake

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#avoid #centrist #controversies #democrats #distance

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#away #happiness #moment #sacrifice #sake

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you? ↗

— William Shatner

#get a life #god #life #oh #sake

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#game #intensity #rules #sake #stay

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. ↗

— Joseph Lewis

#always #author #been #books #burning

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

#art-for-art-s-sake #art

You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God to use or not use as he sees fit. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#art-for-arts-sake #god #art

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#forsake #person #persona #rumors #sacrifice