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

— Mario Perniola

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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)

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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