I share here a text about "manifesting" artistic success, with which I agree:

“My feeling is that you can’t manifest artistic success. Success for most artists is a combination of three things; fulfillment, recognition and sales. The importance of each is obviously very different for each artist, but I believe you can’t achieve any of these unless the art is “right”. So success starts with getting the work right and that’s about the relationship between painter and painting - not something that I believe can be manifested. It’s rarely about an artist simply believing they are great, on the contrary, it’s more often a dedication to self examination and self criticism that drives really good work”

- Jenny Aitken