Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
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