Robert Henry Rubin:  Do you sketch before you paint?

Dorothea Tanning:  I sketch if I am about to engage in an important painting. I like to make sketches first and sometimes like to capture some of the spirit of the sketch when I make the  painting. On the other hand, sometimes I sketch on the canvas and then might decide to change it all. That's what is still exciting about painting.

     —from interview with Robert Henry Rubin, "Dorothea Tanning," NIGHT (November 1979).