//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array(21);
authors = new Array(21);
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";
//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);

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