var quotes=new Array() //change the quotes if desired. Add/ delete additional quotes as desired. quotes[0]='There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
-Douglas Everett' quotes[1]='Whether you think you can or whether you think you can\'t, you\'re right!
-Henry Ford' quotes[2]='I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-Henry David Thoreau' quotes[3]='Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden' quotes[4]='Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
-Clark Moustakas' quotes[5]='We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
-Ida R. Wylie' quotes[6]='There\'s no retirement for an artist, it\'s your way of living so there\'s no end to it.
-Henry Moore' quotes[7]='I believe it was T.S. Eliot who said that if a writer has a pretentious literary style, it is generally because he has not read enough books. Some knowledge of what has been done in writing is, I think, essential.
-William S. Burroughs' quotes[8]='I\'m not an abstractionist. I\'m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I\'m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
-Mark Rothko' quotes[9]='Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
-Sir Cecil Beaton' quotes[10]='After each excess, one always feels even more alone, even more abandoned.
-Charles Baudelaire' quotes[11]='The words printed here are merely concepts. You must go through the experiences.
-Carl Frederick' quotes[12]='Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-Andre Gide' quotes[13]='My love, she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence.
-Bob Dylan' quotes[14]='The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
-Napoleon Hill' quotes[15]='Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don\'t quit.
-Conrad Hilton' quotes[16]='Ideas improve. The meaning of words has a part in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress demands it.
-Guy Debord' quotes[17]='Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
-Eric Hoffer' quotes[18]='The age of making distinctions is past. it has been vanquished by the system. In our day, whoever loves to make distinctions is considered an eccentric whose soul clings to something that has long ago since vanished.
-Soren Kierkegaard' quotes[19]='Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw. Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers\' hours.
-Gabriel Thy' quotes[20]='We come and go: the reality beyond names is not habitable, and the reality of names is a perpetual falling to pieces.
-Octavio Paz' quotes[21]='We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again. Caligula\'s Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in the newspapers every morning.
-William Gaddis' quotes[22]='Society is made up of individuals. It is the individual who interests me, not the society.
-Henry Miller' quotes[23]='The poet wonders whether the course of human history is a progress, a drama, a retrogression, a cycle, an undulation, a vortex, a right- or left-handed spiral, a mere continuum, or what have you. Certain evidence is brought forward, but of an ambiguous and inconclusive nature.
-John Barth' quotes[24]='That nearly imperceptible line between an eye that reflects and an eye that receives...
-Thomas Pynchon' quotes[25]='There\'s a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can\'t have and not want what is readily available to them.
-Robert J. Ringer' quotes[26]='Don\'t ask me nothin\' about nothin\'. I just might tell you the truth.
-Bob Dylan' quotes[27]='It\'s not the situation ... It\'s your reaction to the situation.
-Robert Conklin' quotes[28]='Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
-Morarji Desai' quotes[29]='The man who doesn\'t step on anybody\'s toes is standing still.
-Winston Churchill' quotes[30]='It doesn\'t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
-Jackson Pollock' quotes[31]='When circumstances change, usually so does the hand that feeds them...
-Gabriel Thy' quotes[32]='The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
-Jackson Pollock' quotes[33]='...spent most of the latter half of the last century holding out hope that it would be rescued from Russia\'s clutches by the United States. The memorable line: What have we done not to be invaded by the Americans?
-Tibor Fischer' quotes[34]='Every good painter paints what he is.
-Jackson Pollock' quotes[35]='Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
-George Orwell' quotes[36]='Coincidence has a tendency to occur only to the mind that is prepared to receive it.
-Louis Pasteur' quotes[37]='Democracy don\'t rule this world, this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that\'s better left unsaid.
-Bob Dylan' quotes[38]='Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-Salvador Dali' quotes[39]='There is no program, no policy, no ideology and certainly no philosophy back of Fascism, as there is back of almost every other form of government. It is nothing but a spoils system.
-George Seldes' quotes[40]='My soul is ruled by corruption.
-Iggy Pop' quotes[41]='I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
-Thomas Jefferson' quotes[42]='Money doesn\'t change people, it unmasks them.
-Henry Ford' quotes[43]='People are more violently opposed to fur than leather, because it is easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
-Lone Assailant' quotes[44]='The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances - if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung' quotes[45]='Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin' quotes[46]='The chain reaction of evil - wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.' quotes[47]='War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
-General Smedley Butler ' quotes[48]='Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
-John T. Flynn ' quotes[49]='The great error of nearly all studies of war has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...
-Simone Weil ' quotes[50]='Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer ' quotes[51]='The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
-William Faulkner' quotes[52]='Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ' quotes[53]='When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
-Salvador Dali ' quotes[54]='Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
-Amy Lowell' quotes[55]='Some people wish to bring peace. Others dare to bring a sword. Good painting brings both.
-Gabriel Thy' quotes[56]='I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
-Marc Chagall' quotes[57]='Painting is easy when you don\'t know how, but very difficult when you do.
-Edgar Degas ' quotes[58]='The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent.Ê The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
-Robert Brault ' quotes[59]='An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
-Thomas Paine ' quotes[60]='We all know that Art is not truth.Ê Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.Ê The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies
-Pablo Picasso' quotes[61]='My feeling about technique in art is that it is about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
-John Barth' quotes[62]='A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist.Ê It lacks imperfection.
-Oscar Wilde' quotes[63]='It is often pleasant to stone a martyr no matter how much we admire him.
-John Barth' quotes[64]='An artist is someone who produces things that people don\'t need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
-Andy Warhol ' quotes[65]='Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from the outside the thing itself, by people.
-John Barth' quotes[66]='Eventually, that which prevents you from your work, becomes your work.
-Susan Sontag' quotes[67]='The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.Ê The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
-Henry Miller' quotes[68]='The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer' quotes[69]='I find that approximately no one knows what is going on. That\'s why we have been leaving it to the politicians to make the world work.
-Buckminster Fuller' quotes[70]='An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.Ê.
-Jean Cocteau' quotes[71]='Sure we\'ll have fascism here but it will come as an anti-fascist movement.
-Huey P. Long' quotes[72]='Liberty means responsibility. That\'s why most men dread it.
-George Bernard Shaw' quotes[73]='The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
-Andre Malraux' quotes[74]='An artist\'s career always begins tomorrow.
-James McNeill Whistler ' quotes[75]='Art disturbs, science reassures.
-Georges Braque ' quotes[76]='It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
-Loren Eiseley' quotes[77]='An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
-Paul Valery' quotes[78]='I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
-Claes Oldenburg ' quotes[79]='A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
-George Moore ' quotes[80]='They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one\'s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
-Ernest Hemingway' quotes[81]='A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
-Michelangelo' quotes[82]='The job of the artist is to always deepen the mystery.
-Francis Bacon' quotes[83]='I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater barreness.
-Jean Miro' quotes[84]='You\'re gonna have to serve somebody.
-Bob Dylan' quotes[85]='They keep you doped with religion and sex and TV and you think you\'re so clever and classless and free but you\'re still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
-John Lennon' quotes[86]='I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it\'s what Yeats called the fascination with what\'s difficult. I\'m only trying to do what I can\'t do.
-Lucien Freud' quotes[87]='As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.Ê What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done?Ê A painter has only one language.Ê
-Pablo Picasso' quotes[88]='In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
-Willem de Kooning' quotes[89]='Whatever an artist\'s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
-Willem de Kooning' quotes[90]='Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
-Philip Guston' quotes[91]='There\'s some mysterious process at work here, which I don\'t even want to understand.
-Philip Guston' quotes[92]='Why do people think artists are special? It\'s just another job.
-Andy Warhol' quotes[93]='I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
-Andy Warhol' quotes[94]='If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.
-Marc Chagall' quotes[95]='I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
-Chuck Close' quotes[96]='My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm\'s edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
-Eduard Munch' quotes[97]='Art is not a bargain! Art is available to 5% of our human rase at any time. Leonardo da Vinci said it. Communists tried to make art public! Did not work. Andy Warhola even named his art POP art! Did not work either. Art belongs to the ones who deserve it, to the ones who are seeking it.
-Audrey Bogoslowsky' var whichquote=Math.floor(Math.random()*(quotes.length)) document.write(quotes[whichquote])