Margot Fonteyn Quotes About Dance

• 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, Dance, Being Yourself

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

• I explained it when I danced it.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Dancing

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

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

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Dancing, Magic

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

• 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

  Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

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

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

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Children, Jumping

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

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Ballet, Way

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

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Ballet, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Dance, Civilization, Special

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

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Taken, Dancing

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