Quotes by Chris Kraus

“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?”

“When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.”

“If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.”

“If women have failed to make universal art because were trapped within the personal, why not universalize the personal and make it the subject of our 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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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...”

“Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.”

“I got together with Sylvre because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...”

“If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal,” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?”

“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...”

“I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...”