// JavaScript Document var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Quotation[0] = "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, Painter"; Quotation[1] = "I can't change the fact my paintings don't sell.

Van Gogh"; Quotation[2] = "I have this sort of feeling that I am all there now. It's not even thinking in terms of one's limitations, because they come naturally. I think whatever you have you can do wonders with it, if you accept it.

Willem deKooning, Painter"; Quotation[3] = "If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint ... and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.

Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 28 October 1883."; Quotation[4] = "I build a painting by putting little marks together--some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

Chuck Close, Painter"; Quotation[5] = "Women at that time were supposed to look pretty and throw little handkerchiefs around... well, I couldn't play that role.

Louise Nevelson, Sculptor"; Quotation[6] = "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris, Political Theorist"; Quotation[7] = "If painting is female and insanity is a female disorder, then all women painters are mad and all male painters are women. I paint because I am an artificial blonde woman.

Marlene Dumas, Painter"; Quotation[8] = "As Sharon Stone said, being blonde is a great excuse. When you're having a bad day you can say, I can't help it.

Marlene Dumas, Painter"; Quotation[9] = "I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

David Lynch, Filmmaker"; Quotation[10] = "I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee--with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.

David Lynch, Filmmaker"; Quotation[11] = "It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

David Lynch, Filmmaker"; Quotation[12] = "Art means different things for different people and we all have personal tastes. Where they come from, we don't know. But these tastes can evolve, or devolve. What worries me is that in the present time tastes are devolving and very few people are engaged in what is on screen or what is in a painting and it's just a one-way hollow thrill.

David Lynch, Filmmaker"; Quotation[13] = "Most artists are doing basically the same thing-staying off the streets.

Edward Ruscha, Painter"; Quotation[14] = "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.

Lucian Freud, Painter"; Quotation[15] = "To escape criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard"; Quotation[16] = "Above all keep your colours fresh!

Edouard Manet, Painter"; Quotation[17] = "I was very nervous about my naked body, when the idea of sitting for Lucien first came up, not only because I'm an unusually big heifer carting around sixteen or seventeen stones, but because of some of my body modifications ... Our first meeting took place over lunch at Harry's Bar. I dressed in colours from Lucien's palette - grey-brown trousers and jumper, and a man's short mouse-coloured wig. I was nervous and Lucien is always nervous ... And my physical features which so worried me in the beginning? They are now in paintings which are housed in the greatest collections and museums in the world!

Leigh Bowery, 1993, model for Lucien Freud"; Quotation[18] = "Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not 'accepted' at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance. Just remember that the object of painting pictures in not simply to get them in exhibitions. It is all very fine to have your pictures hung, but you are painting for yourself, not for the jury. I had many years of rejections.

Robert Henri, Painter"; Quotation[19] = "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.

Albert Einstein, Physicist"; Quotation[20] = "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde, Writer"; Quotation[21] = "I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Francis Bacon, Painter"; Quotation[22] = "I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment, and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer"; Quotation[23] = "As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Patti Smith, Painter, Songwriter, Performer"; Quotation[24] = "I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do. That was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Diane Arbus, Photographer"; Quotation[25] = "Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Diane Arbus, Photographer"; Quotation[26] = "Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Diane Arbus, Photographer"; Quotation[27] = "Utterly self-absorbed and isolating itself more and more from the rest of the world; that was very painful for somebody like me who loves America and didn't want to see it pervert all its virtues.

Wim Wenders, Filmmaker"; Quotation[28] = "All in all, I find that women behave just as despicably as men do, and I try to illustrate the reasons for this: namely, that we have been led astray by our upbringing and by the society we live in.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Filmmaker"; Quotation[29] = "I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

Julie Delpy, Actor, Director"; Quotation[30] = "I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.

Catherine Keener, Actor"; Quotation[31] = "My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Juliette Binoche, Actor"; Quotation[32] = "Nakedness is nakedness. I am affected by it as well. I am not above it. I have self-consciousness about my body, not unlike most people. But I wonder why it is that the primary self is the uncomfortable self?

Eric Fischl, Painter"; Quotation[33] = "There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets.

Mary Boone, NYC Gallery Owner"; Quotation[34] = "Every harlot was a virgin once.

William Blake, Poet, Painter, Printmaker"; Quotation[35] = "De Kooning is my main man, really, because he just did everything you can do with paint. He reversed it, dripped it, scraped it. But I want to hold on to a certain amount of reality.

Jenny Saville, Painter"; var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation();