It's an important life lesson for anyone to learn that money is not success. An artist who makes enough to live but doesn't produce works of art specifically to make money is a success. They have many things to teach you about your craft, though true you would be a fool to ask them how to get rich.

Money has diminishing returns on "success" if you define it in literally any other way than "accumulation of money" which only a narcissistic child would.