var num_of_quotes = 64;
quotes = Math.floor (num_of_quotes * Math.random());

if (quotes==0) {
body="Art is not a pastime, but a priesthood.";
title="Jean Cocteau";
}

if (quotes==1) {
body="Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.";
title="Pablo Picasso";
}

if (quotes==2) {
body="The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.";
title="Leonardo da Vinci ";
}

if (quotes==3) {
body="He who works with his hands is a laborer; He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman; He who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist.";
title="St. Francis of Assisi";
}

if (quotes==4) {
body="I shut my eyes in order to see.";
title="Paul Gauguin";
}

if (quotes==5) {
body="The only war that matters is the war against imagination.";
title="Donna Deprima";
}

if (quotes==6) {
body="It's all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.";
title="Jackson Pollock";
}

if (quotes==7) {
body="I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'";
title="Vincent Van Gogh";
}

if (quotes==8) {
body="Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.";
title="Vincent Van Gogh";
}

if (quotes==9) {
body="In an artist's life, death is perhaps no the most difficult thing.";
title="Vincent Van Gogh";
}

if (quotes==10) {
body="They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.";
title="Georges Seurat";
}

if (quotes==11) {
body="Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye – it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.";
title="Edvard Munch";
}

if (quotes==12) {
body="No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breather and feel and suffer and love.";
title="Edvard Munch";
}

if (quotes==13) {
body="I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for.";
title="Georgia O'Keeffe";
}

if (quotes==14) {
body="Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.";
title="Rene Magritte";
}

if (quotes==15) {
body="I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.";
title="Frida Kahlo";
}

if (quotes==16) {
body="It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.";
title="Berthe Morisot";
}

if (quotes==17) {
body="I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.";
title="Marcel Duchamp";
}

if (quotes==18) {
body="I want to make high art that is funny, outrageous and also reveals the human condition, which is not always high.";
title="Robert Arneson";
}

if (quotes==19) {
body="Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.";
title="Frank Stella";
}

if (quotes==20) {
body="People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.";
title="Edgar Degas";
}

if (quotes==21) {
body="Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?";
title="Edgar Degas";
}

if (quotes==22) {
body="I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.";
title="Janet Fish";
}

if (quotes==23) {
body="When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.";
title="Jacob Lawrence";
}

if (quotes==24) {
body="Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.";
title="Claude Monet";
}

if (quotes==25) {
body="The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.";
title="Paul Cezanne";
}

if (quotes==26) {
body="Art is I; Science is We.";
title="Claude Bernard";
}

if (quotes==27) {
body="Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.";
title="John Ruskin";
}

if (quotes==28) {
body="Art takes nature as its model.";
title="Aristotle";
}

if (quotes==29) {
body="If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.";
title="Caspar David Friedrich";
}

if (quotes==30) {
body="Art is not the bread, but the wine of life.";
title="John Paul Richter";
}

if (quotes==31) {
body="All art is but imitation of nature.";
title="Seneca";
}

if (quotes==32) {
body="The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.";
title="Aristotle";
}

if (quotes==33) {
body="A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.";
title="Michelangelo";
}

if (quotes==34) {
body="How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.";
title="Kermit the Frog, muppet";
}

if (quotes==35) {
body="Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.";
title="Pablo Picasso";
}

if (quotes==36) {
body="Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.";
title="Rufino Tamayo";
}

if (quotes==37) {
body="The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.";
title="Lorenzo Ghiberti";
}

if (quotes==38) {
body="There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.";
title="Dan Rice";
}

if (quotes==39) {
body="Art is idea. It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think.";
title="Gordon Woods";
}

if (quotes==40) {
body="Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.";
title="Alfred North Whitehead";
}

if (quotes==41) {
body="If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.";
title="Edgar Degas";
}

if (quotes==42) {
body="Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." ;
title="Lincoln Steffens";
}

if (quotes==43) {
body="Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.";
title="Georges Braque";
}

if (quotes==44) {
body="Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.";
title="Dante Gabriel Rosetti";
}

if (quotes==45) {
body="To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.";
title="Pablo Ruiz y Picasso";
}

if (quotes==46) {
body="We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.";
title="Sir Winston Churchill";
}

if (quotes==47) {
body="Always design a thing by considering its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.";
title="Eero Saarinen";
}

if (quotes==48) {
body="Form ever follows function.";
title="Louis H. Sullivan";
}

if (quotes==49) {
body="Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.";
title="William Morris";
}

if (quotes==50) {
body="We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages – stand quietly before them and wait until they speak to us.";
title="Arthur Schopenhauer";
}

if (quotes==51) {
body="A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.";
title="Sir Joshua Reynolds";
}

if (quotes==52) {
body="Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.";
title="Keith Haring";
}

if (quotes==53) {
body="All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.";
title="Henry Glassie";
}

if (quotes==54) {
body="A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.";
title="Leonardo da Vinci";
}

if (quotes==55) {
body="Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.";
title="Leonardo da Vinci";
}

if (quotes==56) {
body="One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.";
title="Leonardo da Vinci";
}

if (quotes==57) {
body="Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.";
title="Leonardo da Vinci";
}

if (quotes==58) {
body="You don't take a photograph, you make it.";
title="Ansel Adams";
}

if (quotes==59) {
body="There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.";
title="Ansel Adams";
}

if (quotes==60) {
body="A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.";
title="Diane Arbus";
}

if (quotes==61) {
body="My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph." ;
title="Richard Avedon";
}

if (quotes==62) {
body="Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation." ;
title="Charles Baudelaire";
}

if (quotes==63) {
body="To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.";
title="Alexander Calder";
}

if (quotes==64) {
body="Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.";
title="Albert Camus";
}
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