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David Hockney

"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."

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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."

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"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

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"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

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"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

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"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

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"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."

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