Advice like these are not laws. They are like hats. If one doesn’t fit, try another.
A wise man said: before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, "Is it true?" At the second gate, ask "Is it necessary?" At the third gate, ask, "Is it kind?"
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
The artist must be a child of the earth.
Nature speaks to us through patterns, even when those patterns are hidden beneath apparent randomness.