I had a dog once whose ancestors lived in the Tibetan monasteries — lamassaries, they call them.  I convinced myself that the dog knew the great questions and even some of the answers.  I could make myself see magic in this dog.  Its face began to appear in my pictures and looked so right, that pretty soon it was hard to make a picture without it.

That dog became a state of mind.  If you don't feel this, looking at it . . . . I can't help you.

        — from Dorothea Tanning: Insomnia, a short film by Peter Schamoni, 1978.