All Margot Fonteyn Quotes
- The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so… Age
- Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. Been
- I’ve found the perfect partner. Found
- Dancers are both athletes and artists. Artist
- The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding. Behold
- Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another… Another Continent
- Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Alike
- Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any… Aging
- The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first… Acceptance
- I explained it when I danced it. Dance
- Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. Another Word
- Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. Dance
- Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time Become Moments
- Take your work seriously, but never yourself. Esteem
- Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Alike