All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. - M. C. Richards
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. - Chet Atkins
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil