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Art for arts sake means creating something of beauty only for the joy of making it. As opposed to making something of beauty and getting paid.

Or, like the japanese, doing art for spiritual development...

The chamanism had also other goals than art itself...

It can also mean creating art without any concern for an audience at all--i.e. you create art regardless of (or, in some extreme cases, explicitly against) what an audience might think of it.