A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.