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Margot Fonteyn Quotes:

Margot Fonteyn quotes

Ocupation: Ballerina

Life: May 18, 1919 - February 21, 1991

Birthday: May 18

Death: February 21

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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Topics: Self Esteem, Esteem

quote great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art any sort of margot fonteyn Quotes

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Topics: Dance, Ballet, Way

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 is imperative and the second is disastrous.

source: - "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

Topics: Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

source: - Margot Fonteyn (1979). “The magic of dance”, British Broadcasting Corp.

Topics: Dance, Magic, Genius, Talent And Genius

I explained it when I danced it.

source: - "Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous?" by Lyndsey Winship, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2016.

Topics: Dance

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

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dance, Firsts, Moments, Minor Things

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 hard to break away from parental influence.

Topics: Mother Daughter, Age, Trying, Parental Influence, Trying So Hard

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.

source: - "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

Topics: Dance, Art, People, Pretension, Ballet Dancer

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 of them will ever return?

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Trying, Patterns, Return, Illogical, Haphazard

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

Topics: Important, Essentials, Done

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Topics: Dance, Civilization, Special, Special Talents

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Topics: Dance, Children, Jumping

the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

Topics: Baby, Night, Criticism

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Topics: Artist, Thinking, Long

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Topics: Ambition, Hands, Achievement

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

Topics: Running, Age, Wanted

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Topics: Real, Doors, People

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 continent.

Topics: Home, Curse, Continents

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Topics: People, World, Way, Charmed

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

Topics: World, Sometimes, Wilderness

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

Topics: Dance, Taken, Dancing

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Topics: Athlete, Artist, Dancing

I’ve found the perfect partner.

Topics: Perfect, Found, Partners, Perfect Partner

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

Topics: Continents, Remains, Oneself

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