Art Quote by Margot Fonteyn

... 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

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

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

— Margot Fonteyn

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

“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

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

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

— Margot Fonteyn

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

— Margot Fonteyn

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

— Margot Fonteyn

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

— Margot Fonteyn

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

— Margot Fonteyn

I’ve found the perfect partner.

— Margot Fonteyn