The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.