If you're going through hell, keep going.
After a storm comes a calm.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.