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.

- Chris Kraus

I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your…

- Chris Kraus

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

- Chris Kraus

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…

- Chris Kraus

Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film director or as an artist. Invariably,…

- Chris Kraus

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of contro…

- Chris Kraus

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole ex…

- Chris Kraus

In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in the US. Here, you see mainly c…

- Chris Kraus

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionar…

- Chris Kraus