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> [What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/what-i-aspire-to-is-to-have-the-viewer-look-directly-at-the-subject/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

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## More by Chris Jordan

> [All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/all-of-my-work-is-meant-to-evoke-a-whole-bunch-of-different-layers-of/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-m-just-becoming-more-and-more-aware-of-this-truly-profound/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/activating-is-about-changing-people-s-perceptions-of-overlooked-or/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [“If there is anything I’ve learned being the mother of many children, it’s that you’d better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/if-there-is-anything-i-ve-learned-being-the-mother-of-many-children/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/there-s-an-axiom-i-live-by-there-is-no-art-without-politics-you/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-think-of-myself-as-a-translator-i-just-change-the-dry-unfeeling/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/finding-meaning-in-global-mass-phenomena-can-be-difficult-because-the/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-used-to-be-a-photographer-and-now-i-m-some-kind-of-digital/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/if-you-sit-down-among-hundreds-of-thousands-of-albatrosses-in-a-field/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/there-is-no-public-out-there-who-needs-to-change-it-s-each-one-of-us/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/one-culture-i-find-fascinating-to-juxtapose-against-american-culture/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-only-want-to-work-with-transparent-ideas-and-accessible/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-think-there-s-a-tremendous-amount-of-unacknowledged-hostility-in/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/i-crave-to-be-able-to-photograph-the-way-a-painter-paints-in-a-loose/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-jordan/my-work-is-about-the-behaviors-that-we-all-engage-in-unconsciously-on/)

[Chris Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-jordan/)

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