Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

• 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?
• 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.
• Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
• Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
• Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
• Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
• 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.