Todd Hido Quotes

#1. There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#2. If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

Todd Hido

#3. I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

Todd Hido

#4. As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

Todd Hido

#5. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#6. I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

Todd Hido

#7. Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#8. Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.

Todd Hido

#10. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Julia Roberts