Dear Artist, Success in art is the approximate realization of potential.
Success requires effort, often on unpredictable levels.
You may have noted that the feeling of success breeds self-esteem and quickly heals the wounds of previous failures. Set up right, studio life can give a supply of these injections. It's a matter of pacing your true self and coming to an understanding of your own metabolism. Being able to ask this question and to answer it directly and truthfully with action is the glory of art. I can do what I want.