	//quote array
	quoteList = new Array();

	quoteList[0] = "\"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.\"<BR>&mdash;Michelangelo<BR>1475&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1564"
	quoteList[1] = "\"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.\"<BR>&mdash;Edgar Degas<BR>1834&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1917"
	quoteList[2] = "\"If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.\"<BR>&mdash;Edgar Degas<BR>1834&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1917"
	quoteList[3] = "\"A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.\"<BR>&mdash;John Singer Sargent<BR>1856&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1925"
	quoteList[4] = "\"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.\"<BR>&mdash;Michelangelo<BR>1475&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1564"
	quoteList[5] = "\"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.\"<BR>&mdash;Leonardo da Vinci<BR>1452&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1519"
	quoteList[6] = "\"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.\"<BR>&mdash;Leonardo da Vinci<BR>1452&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1519"
	quoteList[7] = "\"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.\"<BR>&mdash;Edouard Manet<BR>1832&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;1883"


	//randomization
	var now = new Date();
	var secs = now.getSeconds();
	var raw_random_number = Math.random(secs);
	var random_number = Math.round(raw_random_number * (quoteList.length));

	if (random_number == quoteList.length){random_number = 0}
		
	//set quote
	var quote = quoteList[random_number];
		if (quote == undefined) {var quote ="";}
