Michael Jordan didn't make his high school basketball team, Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale (twice!), and the guy who started Fage yogurt was once told his yogurt sucked.* From the annals of inspirational failure comes this MoMA rejection letter to Andy Warhol, whose drawing, "Shoe," didn't make the cut because of their "severely limited gallery and storage space."
No doubt Warhol probably kept this letter on his fridge, and stared at it while doing one handed pull-ups, chain smoking, and silkscreening with his toes. Then again, the drawing in question isn't exactly transcendant. But “Double Elvis [Ferus Type]” which Warhol made seven years after this 1956 letter, may bring as much as $50 million at auction.
*This never, ever happened. Ever.
