//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array(31);
authors = new Array(31);
quotes[0] = "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.";
authors[0] = "Salvador Dali.";
quotes[1] = "Australia's 20,000 practising professional visual artists and craft practitioners are among the lowest paid professional workers, yet the sector contributes more than $160 million annually to the economy.";
authors[1] = "Jennifer Bott, CEO Australia Council.";
quotes[2] = "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.";
authors[2] = "Mark Twain";
quotes[3] = "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.";
authors[3] = "Oscar Wilde";
quotes[4] = "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.";
authors[4] = "Auguste Rodin.";
quotes[5] = "Every good painter paints what he is.";
authors[5] = "Jackson Pollock.";
quotes[6] = "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.";
authors[6] = "James McNeill Whistler";
quotes[7] = "Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.";
authors[7] = "Pablo Picasso.";
quotes[8] = "There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.";
authors[8] = "Charlie Chaplin";
quotes[9] = "There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who,thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.";
authors[9] = "Pablo Picasso.";
quotes[10] = "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.";
authors[10] = "Albert Einstein.";
quotes[11] = "There is no must in art because art is free.";
authors[11] = "Wassily Kandinsky.";
quotes[12] = "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."; 
authors[12] = "Auguste Rodin";
quotes[13] = "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.";
authors[13] = "Michelangelo";
quotes[14] = "Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.";
authors[14] = "Louise Nevelson";
quotes[15] = "When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget?";
authors[15] = "Howard Ikemoto";
quotes[16] = "It takes a very long time to become young.";
authors[16] = "Pablo Picasso";
quotes[17] = "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.";
authors[17] ="Rene Magritte";
quotes[18] = "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.";
authors[18] = "Eugene Delacroix.";
quotes[19] = "I shut my eyes in order to see.";
authors[19] = "Paul Gauguin";
quotes[20] = "Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.";
authors[20] ="Thor Hansen";
quotes[21] = "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."; 
authors[21] ="Albert Einstein";
quotes[22] ="We are not here to do what has already been done.";
authors[22] ="Robert Henri";
quotes[23] ="Exactitude is not truth";
authors[23] ="Henri Matisse";
quotes[24] ="To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.";
authors[24] ="Giorgio De Chirico";
quotes[25] ="Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. Witness Shakespeare and Rembrandt, they borrowed from the technique of tradition and created new images by the power of their imagination and human understanding. Little men just borrow from one person. Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way."; 
authors[25] ="John Sloan";
quotes[26] ="Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"; 
authors[26] ="Winston Churchill";
quotes[27] ="Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."; 
authors[27] ="Salvador Dali"
quotes[28] ="Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.";
authors[28] ="Pablo Picasso";
quotes[29] ="The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable";  
authors[29] ="Robert Henri";
quotes[30] ="What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?";
authors[30] ="Van Gogh";
quotes[31] ="Do what you can with what you have";
authors[31] ="T O'Neil";
quotes[32] ="Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present";
authors[32] ="Albert Camus";
quotes[33] ="It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive";
authors[33] ="Albert Einstein";
quotes[34] ="The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept";
authors[34] ="John W Gardner";
quotes[35] ="Painters often fall into despair.. when they see that their paintings lack the roundness and the liveliness which we find in objects seen in the mirror... but it is impossible for a painting to look as rounded as a mirror image... except if you look at both with one eye only";
authors[35] ="Leonardo Da Vinci";
quotes[36] ="True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist";
authors[36] ="Albert Einstein";
//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);

//display the quotation
document.write("<b>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\</b>");
document.write("-- " + authors[index]);
//done