Latest Brian Froud Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Artist, People, 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.

  Brian Froud

  Real, People, Needs

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• I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a hobbit house.

  Brian Froud

  House, Typical

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Book, People, Fairy

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• Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

  Brian Froud

  Sea, Tides, Becoming

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

  Brian Froud

  World, Path, Sometimes

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Way, Path, Steps

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• Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying flat on your back and you literally have another point of view. They're about loosening up being rigid. They trip you over to break the barrier between you and the world. So their so-called "badness" actually can be quite instrumental in helping you with things.

  Brian Froud

  Lying, Views, Attention

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• It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce something evil or bad was quite hard for me.

  Brian Froud

  Moving, Responsibility, Evil

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• I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

  Brian Froud

  Country, Jobs, Troll

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• It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.

  Brian Froud

  New York, Home, Cities

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

  Brian Froud

  Art, Connections, Spirit

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• Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.

  Brian Froud

  Art, People, Church

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Thinking, Way, Fairy

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Real, Imagination, Everyday

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• I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.

  Brian Froud

  Design, Honest, Advertising

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

  Brian Froud

  Stories, Should, Always Believe

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• In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

  Brian Froud

  Real, College, Fairy Tale

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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.

  Brian Froud

  Art, Way, Rubbish

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