“Moods change constantly in your life. In the forties I was in a kind of gothic mood. The mood of longing for a displacement, of another time, another place. I had read gothic novels at that time. They were permeated with this mist of mysterious and unpredictable atmospheres of places that I didn't know about....”
— Dorothea Tanning, from an interview with Roland Hagenberg published in Art of Russia and the West, No. 1 (March 1989).
