Trompe l’oeil is everything to every painter. Tricks on every eye; not still-life tricks as of old, but in speeding life as of now. Fast arrangements of atoms within the pigment molecule race to control tungstates and chromophores, only to impose them onto personified mineral ideas – hers.

      —from Dorothea Tanning: Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Stephen Mazoh Gallery, 1983, p. 21.