“[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
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'm torn between maintaining you as an entity to write to and talking with you as a person.” — 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 Female-vulnerability 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Who gets to speak and why?, I wrote last week, is the only question.” — Chris Kraus 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
“Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not… — Chris Kraus Dignity 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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 Way of living 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
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
“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to… — Chris Kraus Life 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
