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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
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