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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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