// REM Gallery - Randomly Display Quotations; function quotation () { var quote=new Array (); var q=0; // Quotations array; quote[q]=new Array ("[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.", "Al Capp (1909 - 1979)", "capp.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.", "Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)", "whitehead.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.", "Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary", "bierce.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("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 (1874 - 1925)", "lowell.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.", "Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)", "gide.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Let each man exercise the art he knows.", "Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.", "aristophanes.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.", "Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)", "shahn.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.", "Brenda Ueland", "ueland.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it.  A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.", "Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05", "mceldowney.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.", "Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)", "cicero.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art forms of the past were really considered elitist.  Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven.  It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty.  Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.", "David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06", "cronenberg.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.", "David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06", "cronenberg.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.", "E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)", "forster.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.", "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)", "wharton.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is on the side of the oppressed.  Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.  For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?", "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)", "wharton.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.", "Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)", "goncourt.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.", "Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)", "bowen.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.", "Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)", "delacroix.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I don't believe in total freedom for the artist.  Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all.  If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.", "Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)", "fellini.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.", "Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)", "zappa.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I paint my own reality.  The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.", "Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)", "kahlo.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.", "G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)", "chesterton.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life.  There are as many solutions as there are human beings.", "George Tooker", "tooker.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("What I dream of is an art of balance.", "Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003", "matisse.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.", "Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887", "beecher.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.", "Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 'Babette's Feast'", "dinesen.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("The painting has a life of its own.  I try to let it come through.", "Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)", "pollock.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.", "John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963", "kennedy.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.", "John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)", "sargent.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.", "Joseph Chilton Pearce", "pearce.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need.  The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it.  Now we could not live without it.", "Louis I Kahn", "kahn.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.", "Marcel Proust", "proust.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.", "Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)", "cervantes.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.", "Nickolas Muray", "muray.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art has never been made while thinking of art.", "Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006", "stumpo.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.", "Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)", "welles.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.", "Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)", "picasso.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.", "Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)", "picasso.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("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.", "Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)", "picasso.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("There is no abstract art.  You must always start with something.  Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.", "Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)", "picasso.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is either plagiarism or revolution.", "Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)", "gauguin.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I shut my eyes in order to see.", "Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)", "gauguin.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Technology adds nothing to art.  Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, "Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?"  But that would, of course, have ruined the story.  Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.", "Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993", "jillette.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own?", "Piero Milani", "milani.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("The position of the artist is humble.  He is essentially a channel.", "Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)", "mondrian.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Every artist was first an amateur.", "Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876", "emerson.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.", "Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'", "adams.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("All art is an imitation of nature.", "Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)", "seneca.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Creative work is play.  It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.", "Stephen Nachmanovitch", "nachmanovitch.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.", "W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915", "maugham.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Life isn't long enough for love and art.", "W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence", "maugham.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.", "Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)", "whitman.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.", "Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006", "jenkins.jpg"); q++; quote[q]=new Array ("Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.", "William Baziotes", "baziotes.jpg"); var q_num =Math.floor(Math.random()*quote.length); if (q_num > quote.length) { q_num=quote.length; } // Just in case; var q_text=quote[q_num][0]; var q_cite=quote[q_num][1]; var q_pic ="images/quotes/"+quote[q_num][2]; document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln("
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