....I read somewhere that what I believed to be poetic and sublime testimonials of my conviction that life is a desperate confrontation with unknown forces are in reality cute girlish dreams, flaring with sexual symbols....

     —from "Questions pour Dorothea Tanning entretien avec Alain Jouffroy, Mars 1974," in Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Paris: Centre National D'Art Contemporain, 1974, p. 48.  Translated and quoted in elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre de création industrielle, exhibition catalogue, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009, p. 37.