// ============================================== // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com // Free for all; but please leave in this header. // ============================================== var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. // To add more quotations, continue with the // pattern, adding to the array. Remember // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Quotation[0] = "\"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.\"

Albert Einstein"; Quotation[1] = "\"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.\"

Henry Ford"; Quotation[2] = "\"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[3] = "\"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[4] = "\"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[5] = "\"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."; Quotation[6] = "\"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[7] = "\"We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[8] = "\"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.\"

Albert Einstein"; Quotation[9] = "\"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.\"

Carl Jung"; Quotation[10] = "\"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.\"

Andre Gide"; Quotation[11] = "\"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.\"

Edmond de Goncourt"; Quotation[12] = "\"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.\"

Eugene Delacroix"; Quotation[13] = "\"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.\"

Jackson Pollock"; Quotation[14] = "\"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.\"

John F. Kennedy"; Quotation[15] = "\"I shut my eyes in order to see.\"

Paul Gauguin"; Quotation[16] = "\"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.\"

Piet Mondrian"; Quotation[17] = "\"Every artist was first an amateur.\"

Ralph Waldo Emerson"; Quotation[18] = "\"Repetition is the death of art.\"

Robin Green"; Quotation[19] = "\"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.\"

Simonides"; Quotation[20] = "\"Life isn't long enough for love and art.\"

W. Somerset Maugham"; Quotation[21] = "\"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.\"

Henry Ward Beecher"; Quotation[22] = "\"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.\"

Jackson Pollock"; Quotation[23] = "\"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.\"

Frank Tibolt"; Quotation[24] = "\"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.\"

Thomas A. Edison"; Quotation[25] = "\"Imagination is more important than knowledge.\"

Albert Einstein"; Quotation[26] = "\"An idea is salvation by imagination.\"

Frank Lloyd Wright"; Quotation[27] = "\"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.\"

Mark Twain"; Quotation[28] = "\"Everything you can imagine is real.\"

Pablo Picasso"; Quotation[29] = "\"Happiness depends upon ourselves.\"

Aristotle"; Quotation[30] = "\"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.\"

Aristotle"; Quotation[31] = "\"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.\"

Henri Matisse"; Quotation[32] = "\"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.\"

Shirley MacLaine"; Quotation[33] = "\"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. \"

ainer Maria Rilke"; Quotation[34] = "\"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.\"

John F. Kennedy"; Quotation[35] = "\"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.\"

Henry Kissinger"; Quotation[36] = "\"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.\"

Ralph Waldo Emerson"; Quotation[37] = "\"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.\"

Miss Piggy"; Quotation[38] = "\"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.\"

George Bernard Shaw"; Quotation[39] = "\"People only see what they are prepared to see.\"

Ralph Waldo Emerson"; Quotation[40] = "\"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.\"

Lewis Carroll"; Quotation[41] = "\" A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\"

Lao-tzu"; Quotation[42] = "\"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.\"

Abraham Lincoln"; Quotation[43] = "\"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.\"

Gladys Bronwyn Stern"; // ====================================== // Do not change anything below this line // ====================================== var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation();