Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? — Chris Kraus Conditions Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility… — Chris Kraus Causes Copy Share Image
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and… — Chris Kraus Art 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
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus Degradation 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 Copy Share Image
“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like… — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.” — Chris Kraus Connection Copy Share Image
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always… — Chris Kraus Black panther 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 Infatuation 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
“Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings… — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“But since Catt was more realist than fabulist, she understood her actual death at the hands of her killer would be something… — Chris Kraus Death Copy Share Image
“Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl… — Chris Kraus Analysis Copy Share Image
“Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.” — Chris Kraus Desire Copy Share Image
“Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The… — Chris Kraus Dreams Copy Share Image
“If art's a seismographic project, when that project’s met with miscomprehension, failure must become the subject too.” — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“And now Chris felt David’s ghost pushing her to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all… — Chris Kraus Falling in love Copy Share Image
“When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.” — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something… — Chris Kraus Art Copy Share Image
“Oh Dick, you eroticise what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.” — Chris Kraus Eroticism 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 Knowing jesus Copy Share Image
