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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. (Jack Adams)
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. (Aeschylus)
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Aesop)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. (Aesop)
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. (Josef Albers)
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. (William Rounseville Alger)
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. (Louis Armstrong)
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. (Darby Bannard)
Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor. (Drew Barrymore)
Never follow the crowd. (Bernard Baruch)
Stop trying to tell a story. If heads and hands are leading you astray, lop 'em off! (Carl Belz)
-The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
advice, n. the smallest current coin. (Ambrose Bierce)
consult, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on. (Ambrose Bierce)
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Josh Billings)
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much!!! (Betty Jean Billups)
The past is a picture to be observed, not a house to be lived in. (K. A. Blackburn)
A fop sometimes gives important advice. (Nicolas Boileau)
Always keep your best work. (Sergei Bongart)
Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better. (Thomas S. Buechner)
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing. (Robert Burton)
Good but rarely came from good advice. (Lord Byron)
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. (Alexis Carrel)
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval. (Coco Chanel)
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. (Earl of Chesterfield)
In those days he was wiser than he is now – he used frequently to take my advice. (Winston Churchill)
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (John Churton Collins)
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. (John Churton Collins)
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it. (Kitty O'Neill Collins)
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. (Charles Caleb Colton)
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. (Edgar Degas)
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. (Walt Disney)
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Betty Ford)
He that won't be counselled can't be helped. (Benjamin Franklin)
The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it. (Libbie Fudim)
When at an impasse, look at the work of masters. (Irwin Greenberg)
-to students...
I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused. (George Harris)
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. (Jim Harrison)
The "s" curve can be found in the human form, in animals, plants, flowers, in anything alive. Keep the straight lines for structures, created from "dead" materials. This advice is a great help in thinking of dominance and accent. (Tony van Hasselt)
It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve. (Ben Heppner)
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. (Jack Herbert)
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. (Thomas Hood)
Whatever advice you give, be brief. (Horace)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong)
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. (Karl Von Knebel)
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. (Marquis de LaGrange)
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. (Timothy Leary)
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. (Bruce Lee)
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. (J. C. Macaulay)
We need to be terribly selective about whose advice we absorb. We are under attack from a vast range of often contradictory approaches and it is all too easy to feel confused and lost. (Arthur Maderson)
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. (Thomas L. Masson)
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Don't eat the menu. (Bruce McGrew)
-to Paul Durand-Ruel...
I took your advice and managed to make some quite good things out of paintings I considered irredeemable. (Claude Monet)
One day Boudin said to me, "Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky." I took his advice. (Claude Monet)
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. (Mary Wortley Montagu)
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it. (Robert Montgomery)
I only know this – that you can't give advice to an artist. (Louise Nevelson)
You never know where a person may go, so always encourage the journey. (Carolyn Newberger)
Any artist that asks for advice is interested in doing more, being more, going further. Ultimately there should be a target in mind, and understanding this target is an important part of giving advice. (David Oleski)
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "Tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time." (Randy Pausch)
A good scare is worth more than good advice. (proverb)
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. (English proverb)
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. (Italian proverb)
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours. (Swedish proverb)
I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them. (Howard Pyle)
Simplify, know what you want to say, stand back once in a while, and look at your picture upside down and see if it works. (Charles Reid)
One gives nothing so freely as advice. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. (Rumi)
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want. (Sandy Sandy)
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. (David Seabury)
-to a young landscape painter...
Never paint a tree that is closer than a mile away. (Louis Siegriest)
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle – to do nothing at all. (Sydney Smith)
No one wants advice – only corroboration. (John Steinbeck)
-to E. J. Hughes...
Whenever you can, try to give a little sky over the mountain top, especially as also the frame covers a tiny part of the painting. (Max Stern)
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Work hard, never give up and don't fall in love with yourself. (Martha Sturdy)
Many receive advice; few profit by it. (Publilius Syrus)
You simply must stop taking advice from other people. (Melissa Timberman)
Go not to the elves for advice, for they will say both no and yes. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Ask for what you want. Ask for help, ask for input, ask for advice and ideas - but never be afraid to ask. (Brian Tracy)
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. (Frank Tyger)
My friend Stojan Pacov gave me a friendly advice: Art is not what you paint; art is how you paint it. (Milos Vujasinovic)
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. (David Zucker)
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