William Kentridge: How we make sense of the world

Willian Kentridge is a South African contemporary artist who tells of his story of failure. "I failed at painting, I failed at acting, I failed at film making, so I discovered at the age of 30 I was back making drawings". It was not until he told himself he was an artist with all he wanted to included in the term - that he felt he was on the right track. "It took me a long time to unlearn the advice I had been giving. For for me the only hope was the cross fertilization between the different medias and genres."

He did not let failure be the end of his passion and instead used it in animation instead.