response to seminar reading- "On Failure & Anonymity"

As an artist, reading "ON Failure & Anonymity" from the book Wet, I was originally left feeling discouraged. The artist's initial pessimistic outlook that success ruins an artist yet being poor is just and awful doesn't give to artist much to hope for. There appears to be no middle ground. However, through further analization of the article I realized that the author is taking the preacher route in trying to encourage artists to value their work rather than the scrutinizes, the criticism, the money, or the lack there of. Unfortunately, many artists will feel more of a cut when they're referred to as potentially becoming bums. Perhaps Sol LeWitt's letter to Eva Hesse to stop making sense of her art is the right way to encourage an artist into returning to their work rather than world surrounding art that we all tend to occasionally get lost in.