“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you’re a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction… — Chris Kraus Family Copy Share Image
“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore,… — Chris Kraus Empathy Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most… — Chris Kraus Facts Copy Share Image
“The difference between now and fifteen years ago is I don't think I was able, ever, to write any of those notebooks… — Chris Kraus Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“All acts of sex were forms of degradation. ... What do you do with the Serious Young Woman (short hair, flat shoes,… — Chris Kraus Feminism Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective,… — Chris Kraus Poetry Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you… — Chris Kraus Contradictions Copy Share Image
In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film… — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which… — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“Somehow this redneck town allows the possibility of a middle-aged New York City woman bouncing round a house alone more generously than… — Chris Kraus Community Copy Share Image
I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C:… — Chris Kraus Attraction Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Dear Dick, I guess it's been a case of infatuation... Mostly this infatuation-energy is about wanting to know someone. ... Whereas the… — Chris Kraus Infatuation Copy Share Image
