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Margot Fonteyn

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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


#beauties #catch #ever #fly #forms

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


#any #art #artists #find #great

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.


— Margot Fonteyn


#seriously #take #work #your #yourself

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


#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.


— Margot Fonteyn


#any #art #induces #life #mediocrity

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


— Margot Fonteyn


#genius #inexplicable #magic #point #whole

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


— Margot Fonteyn


#encountered #first #first time #great #minor






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Ashton choreographed Marguerite and Armand for them which no other couple danced until the 21st century. Fonteyn Court one of the accommodation buildings at the Parsons Field site of St. She did call him the favourite partner of her entire career.

Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991) was an English ballerina of the 20th century. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

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