Dora Maar Quotes

“André Breton on Jacqueline Lamba: "I had seen her enter here several times before. And I can certainly say that, here, on the twenty-ninth of May, 1934, this woman was scandalously beautiful. She was writing; she had also been writing the day before, and even then I was taken by the idea that she was writing to me, surprised even to find myself awaiting her letter”
― Louise Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso

“Dora on her mother: "Without ever knowing what she wanted from life, she knew she hadn't received it”
― Louise Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso

“All Picasso's portraits of me are lies. They're all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar”
― Louise Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso