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 vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

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  Art, Book, Past

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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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  Believe, Heart, Space

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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, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself.

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  Heart, Eye, Looks

  "Brian Froud and Faery". World of Froud Interview, www.worldoffroud.com.

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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, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

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  Wise, Reality, Connections

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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 full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.

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  Song, Passion, Moon

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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 truth hidden deep inside them.

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  Journey, Ideas, Clear

  Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

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  Way, Path, Steps

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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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 us to journey with them as our guides while we walk the infinite paths of the Faerie.

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  Beautiful, Journey, Our World

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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 world. As above, so below.

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  Healing, Men, Self

  Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

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  Art, Way, Rubbish

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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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, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

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  Art, Journey, Deep Water

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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 space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

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  Garden, Lakes, Land

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

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  Stories, Should, Always Believe

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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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. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.

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  Dark, Voice, Roots

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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 was always trying to see them through my eyes.

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  Heart, Eye, Always Trying

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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 are possible in the land of Faerie.

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  Land, Legends, Fairy

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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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  Space, Giving, Depth

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• We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

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  Real, People, Needs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

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  Soul, Earth, Form

  Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.

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  Thinking, Way, Fairy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

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  Artist, People, Depth

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

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  Art, Connections, Spirit

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.

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  Book, People, Fairy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose.

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  Real, Imagination, Everyday

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

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  World, Path, Sometimes

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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