"I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove……" — David Hockney
"I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one."
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170 Quotes by David Hockney
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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