Brian Froud

Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of…

— Brian Froud

“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for…

— Brian Froud

Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is…

— Brian Froud

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to…

— Brian Froud

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

— Brian Froud

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning…

— Brian Froud

Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon…

— Brian Froud

Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's…

— Brian Froud

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if…

— Brian Froud

Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans…

— Brian Froud

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you…

— Brian Froud

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

— Brian Froud