• Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.

    Vladimir Nabokov: Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies