I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and… — Chris Kraus Persistence Copy Share Image
“Dear Dick, I'm not sure I still want to fuck you. At least, not in the same way. Sylvère keeps talking about… — Chris Kraus Attraction Copy Share Image
“Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against… — Chris Kraus Communication 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
“So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and I created you out… — Chris Kraus Daily life Copy Share Image
“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism,… — Chris Kraus Getting better 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 All kinds 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
“Time's an unsealed envelope and crime's a metaphor for anguish, private symphonies of intensity exploding in the dark.” — Chris Kraus Crime Copy Share Image
“I was unhappy too. And until we own our history, she thought, I thought, there can be no change.” — Chris Kraus Change 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
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
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 Able 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her… — Chris Kraus Expectations-of-women Copy Share Image
