Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”
“In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.”