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He became ill when he was 21. To cheer him up his mother brought him paints. He discovered his passion for art here. He dropped law school, in which he was formally enrolled in, to become an artist. This greatly upset his father because his father's dream was for him to become a lawyer.

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Around the age of 19 he fell ill and his mother brought him Some paints.

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