Quotes by Margot Fonteyn - Page 1

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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Art
Dance
Life
Being Yourself
Mediocrity
Pretension
Life Art Great
Alike
Artists
Themselves
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I’ve found the perfect partner.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Found
Partners
Perfect
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I explained it when I danced it.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Dancing
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Genius is another word for magic.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Genius
Inexplicable
Magic
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Dancers are both athletes and artists.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Art
Smile
Athlete
Dancer
Dancing
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Work
Women
Self Esteem
Self Respect
Yourself
Work Yourself Your
Yourself Your Never
Never
Take
Work Your Never
Seriously
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Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Profession
Way
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Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Mediocrity
Pretension
Alike
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...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Continents
Oneself
Remains
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I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Running
Age
Wanted
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Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
First Time
Firsts
Moments
Time Great Things
Time Great First Time
Encountered
Minor
Revelation
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Dancing
Genius
Inexplicable
Magic
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Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Sometimes
Wilderness
World
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Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Dancing
Mind
Taken
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Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Children
Joy
Jumping
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generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Achievement
Ambition
Hands
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The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
People
Way
World
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Baby
Criticism
Night
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... 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 / Ballerina
Doors
People
Real
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Home
Continents
Curse
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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?
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Haphazard
Illogical
Patterns
Return
Trying
Beauties
Forms
Catch
Fly
Life Forms
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Civilization
Special
World
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Artist
Long
Thinking
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Daughter
Age
Mother
Trying
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Dance
Attitude
Important
Self
Self Esteem
Years
Between
First
Difference
Disastrous
Over
Imperative
Important Thing
Learned
Second
Seriously
Taking
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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.
Margot Fonteyn / Ballerina
Done
Important
Might
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