“Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.” — Chris Kraus Claustrophobia Copy Share Image
“When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.” — 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
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? — Chris Kraus Conditions 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 Asked Copy Share Image
“Who gets to speak and why?, I wrote last week, is the only question.” — Chris Kraus Speak Copy Share Image
“To be in love with someone means believing that to be in someone else's presence is the only means of being, completely,… — Chris Kraus Love Copy Share Image
It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to… — Chris Kraus Atmosphere Copy Share Image
“...remaining adolescent means rejecting all compensatory lies about one's life...” — Chris Kraus Adolescent Copy Share Image
“I'm torn between maintaining you as an entity to write to and talking with you as a person.” — Chris Kraus Talking Copy Share Image
“[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.” — Chris Kraus Human connection Copy Share Image
Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time. — Chris Kraus Matter Copy Share Image
“Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.” — Chris Kraus Feminism Copy Share Image
“Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not… — Chris Kraus Complicated Copy Share Image
“But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time… — Chris Kraus First time Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Communism Copy Share Image
“Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a… — Chris Kraus Complicity Copy Share Image
“My entire state of being's changed because I'v become my sexuality: female, straight, wanting to love men, be fucked. Is there a… — Chris Kraus Homosexuality Copy Share Image
“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to… — Chris Kraus Complexities 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 Female-vulnerability Copy Share Image
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