Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect.… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
