“ 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? Chris Kraus
“ As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes… Chris Kraus
“ It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played… Chris Kraus
“ All acts of sex were forms of degradation.... What do you do with the Serious Young Woman (short hair, flat shoes, body slightly hunched, head drifting back and forth between the books she's read)? Yo… Chris Kraus
“ Dear Dick, I'm not sure I still want to fuck you. At least, not in the same way. Sylvère keeps talking about us disturbing your "fragility", but I'm not sure that I agree. There's nothing so remarkabl… Chris Kraus
“ [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
“ S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do?C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state.S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt?C: N… Chris Kraus
“ No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling. Chris Kraus
“ Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto… Chris Kraus
“ ...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had. Chris Kraus
“ Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at som… Chris Kraus
