Comment on “All Right, With Feeling”

Well, what are the real-world failures an artist can experience?

Having a novel vision but lacking an appreciative audience or patron is a failure to find the right people, but not a failure of the art itself.

Having a novel idea but being unable to express it concretely as an art work ... that's definitely a failure, although this kind of "failure" is often temporary and is usually experienced by the artist as spinning one's wheels. Approaching success through approximations to what is ultimately the "final" work.