Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Bio: David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London.
Known for:
A Bigger Splash
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1971)
Beverly Hills Housewife (1967)
Bigger Trees Near Warter (2007)
American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) (1968)