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
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
– 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
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
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical 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?