Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity.

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Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity.

Dorothea Tanning

Salon · 2002

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Art as therapy Purpose of art Art

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

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Interview

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2002

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Dorothea Tanning

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Tanning, Dorothea. Interviewed by John Glassing. Salon, 11 Feb. 2002, https://www.salon.com/2002/02/11/tanning/.

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Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity. — Dorothea Tanning

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