I'm aware it's now a hostile city [New York City]. I feel I… - David Hockney

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I'm aware it's now a hostile city [New York City]. I feel I'm in school, actually. There are signs everywhere you don't get in any other city. When you see all the smokers outside a building in New York, I just think the building is full of bad-mannered people who haven't thought, "We'll give them a little room to smoke in." That's what a reasonable person, a person with good manners, would do.

David Hockney

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David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s.

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