Brian Froud Quotes
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Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as…
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I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.
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I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.
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Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the…
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The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.
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Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a…
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Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with…
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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 into deep areas,…
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The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things…
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For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.
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You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I…
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At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to greet us, inviting…
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To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.
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Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the…
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Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma,…
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Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things,…
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Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves.…
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