Chris Kraus Quotes
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?
Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.
It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.
...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.
No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.
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?
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 we’re trapped within the “personal, ” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?
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.
Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.
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...