Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

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

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“Take your work seriously, but never yourself.”

“Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike”

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

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.