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.
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
We never really perceive what color is physically!
It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.