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“I see the world as very beautiful,” said David Hockney. The British artist is pictured above in May 1978. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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David Hockney believed painting could change the world; in the midst of all our miseries, he said, art lets us see the world as beautiful, thrilling, mysterious. Hockney, one of the best-known contemporary artists, has died at home, age 88, his publicist said
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