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" If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something. "

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" I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college. "

" When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist. "

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