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Mario Perniola Quotes

1948–2018 Italy

Mario Perniola (20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018) was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics and author.

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Hans Urs von Balthasar is the only one in our century to have raised the question of the essential “form” of Catholicism, a form that Balthasar finds more often in the works of certain poets or writers than in those of theologians.

There is a secret in communication: it consists in making oneself invisible through excessive exposure. (p. 13)

Art can never dissolve into communication, because it contains an incommunicable core that is the source of an infinity of interpretations. (p. 15)

Artistic and theoretical strategies have so far sought to keep Outsider Art separate from institutional art. With the ‘fringe’ shift, this fundamental distinction has fallen away. (p. 66)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mario Perniola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.