{"author":"Chris Kraus","author_id":"Chris+Kraus","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["art","failing","failure","making-art"],"id":20601,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["extreme","feelings","lonely","love","passion"],"id":63771,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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 out in the story of one person. It was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["expectations-of-women","female-vulnerability","female-writers","feminism","vulnerability","women","women-writers"],"id":66448,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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?","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["art","identity","memory","past"],"id":70541,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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 which we can project our fantasies.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["falling-in-love","fantasy","imagination","infatuation","love","relationships","romance"],"id":134288,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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 the viewer much more active. (Years later Chris would realise that her fondness for bad art is exactly like Jane Eyre's attraction to Rochester, a mean horse-faced junkie: bad characters invite invention.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["art","bad-art","characters","creativity","jane-eyre"],"id":159163,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed.S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["attraction","embarrassment","infatuation","love","relationships","shame"],"id":172031,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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?","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["art","feminism"],"id":178100,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why.... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["analysis","analytical-minds","female","feminism","paradigm","questioning","questions","rejection","women"],"id":204956,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"},{"text":"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 remarkable in one more woman adoring you. It's a 'problem' you're confronting all the time. I'm just a particularly annoying one, one who refuses to behave... And yet I feel this tenderness towards you, after all we've been through.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["attraction","falling-in-love","in-love","infatuation","love","men","women"],"id":225936,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}