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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
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