The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
