14 Chris Jordan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Chris Jordan

American Artist

Born: 1963

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I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture. Chris Jordan

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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. Chris Jordan

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I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either. Chris Jordan

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I want people to realize that they matter. Chris Jordan

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There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us. Chris Jordan

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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy. Chris Jordan

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My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day. Chris Jordan

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing. Chris Jordan

If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity. Chris Jordan

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. Chris Jordan

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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something. Chris Jordan

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