Quotes by Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

27 quotes found

Common Themes

feminism sex infatuation women sexuality relationships falling-in-love love art imagination human-connection romance female-vulnerability vulnerability driving music female attraction sexual-relationships eroticism shame woman fantasy neurosis philosophy analysis analytical-minds paradigm questioning questions

“If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
art failing failure making-art

“It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
reading

“Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all...”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
feminism feminist intelligence sexuality

“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
empathy highly-sensitive-person hsp imagination

“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with...”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
brave female human inspirational

“Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
desire

“There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what’s the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. K...”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
driving music