FAILURE
Profit from your failed paintings. Each one is sending you a message about what you may be doing wrong. Find out what it is, and don't do it again. I regard my disasters as invitations to learn more. They raise my hackles and dare me. My blunders tell me something technical (and therefore valuable) about what I do wrong. I see the mistakes I make for what they are一ordinary errors-and nothing more. In the same way, when you make mistakes they do not reflect upon you as a person, nor on your intelligence, and certainly not on your artistic attributes. Mistakes are part of being human. So what?