
<!-- hide ***written by Graham Dellaire, McGill University 1997 - adapted by Jeffrey E. Salzberg 1999**
var quotes = new Array(55)

quotes[0] = "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. -Brian Aldiss"
quotes[1] = "The great artist is the simplifier. -Henri Frederic Amiel"
quotes[2] = "We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. -Henri Frederic Amiel"
quotes[3] = "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -Francis Bacon"
quotes[4] = "If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? -George Balanchine"
quotes[5] = "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets -Ellen Barkin "
quotes[6] = "The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. -Roland Barthes"
quotes[7] = "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra"
quotes[8] = "Music is well said to be the speech of angels.-Thomas Carlyle"
quotes[9] = "Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration. -Matthew Charman"
quotes[10] = "Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. -Jean Cocteau"
quotes[11] = "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.  -Leonardo Da Vinci"
quotes[12] = "The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. -Bette Davis"
quotes[13] = "Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to  look at things in a different way. -Edward De Bono"
quotes[14] = "Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.  -Claude Debussy"
quotes[15] = "The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. -Agnes De Mille"
quotes[16] = "Creation is a drug I can't do without. -Cecil B. De Mille"
quotes[17] = "The legs are the wheels of creativity. -Albert Einstein"
quotes[18] = "If it sounds good, it IS good. -Edward Kennedy Ellington"
quotes[19] = "The best actors do not let the wheels show. -Henry Fonda "
quotes[20] = "You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for -Jane Fonda"
quotes[21] = "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. -Anna Freud"
quotes[22] = "The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
quotes[23] = "Acting is happy agony. -Sir Alec Guiness"
quotes[24] = "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. -Henry James"
quotes[25] = "In the great human comedy, one day we're spectators and the next day we're performers. -Garrison Keillor"
quotes[26] = "If more politicians knew poetry. . . the world would be a little better place in which to live. - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[27] = "... the life of the arts. . .is the test of the quality of a nation's civilization. - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[28] = "The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[29] = "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[30] = "(T)he highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself. . . - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[31] = "I look forward to an America that will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. - John F. Kennedy"
quotes[32] = "Music is the universal language of mankind.  -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
quotes[33] = "All art is a revolt against man's fate. - Andre' Malreaux"
quotes[34] = "I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. -Marcel Marceau"
quotes[35] = "Ars gratia artis -Metro Goldwyn Mayer"
quotes[36] = "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.  -Michelangelo"
quotes[37] = "Art necessarily presupposes knowledge. -John Stuart Mill"
quotes[38] = "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. -George Jean Nathan"
quotes[39] = "One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzche"
quotes[40] = "I have to act to live. -Sir Lawrence Olivier "
quotes[41] = "Art is a form of catharsis. -Dorothy Parker"
quotes[42] = "All men practice the actor's art. -Petron"
quotes[43] = "One must act in painting as in life, directly. -Pablo Picasso"
quotes[44] = "In art, the only absolute. . .is this one. -Jeffrey E. Salzberg"
quotes[45] = "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quois. -Peter Schickele"
quotes[46] = "There are two remedies for the miseries of life: music and cats.  -Albert Schweitzer"
quotes[47] = "All art is based on non-conformity. -Ben Shahn"
quotes[48] = "All truly great art is optimistic. -Upton Sinclair"
quotes[49] = "I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. -Kevin Spacey"
quotes[50] = "All passes. Art alone enduring stays to us. -Tiberius"
quotes[51] = "The ballet is the ultimate stage for unspoken truths. -Wendy Wasserstein"
quotes[52] = "Woe to the dancer who loses patience! -Mary Wigman"
quotes[53] = "I love acting. It is so much more real than life. -Oscar Wilde"
quotes[54] = "By hammer and hand, all arts do stand. -Ancient Mechanics' Guild motto."
quotes[55] = "The arts do not defend our nation, but they make our nation worth defending. -Ken Burns"


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