Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Source: Stephen Dedalus, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 5, 1916.
-- James Joyce, (Feb 2 1882-1941), Irish novelist, poet, playwright; He was best known for his novels of subtle, frank portraits of human nature; wrote Ulysses, 1922; Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, 1914.