The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Source: In Artists in Quotation, by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989.
-- Andre Malraux, (Nov 3 1901-1976), French novelist, art historian, public official; He was a hero of French Resistance during WW II and wrote The Voices of Silence, 1951.