Quotes by Brian Froud - Page 1

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.
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Soul
Spirit
Spirit And Soul
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The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.
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Earth
Form
Soul
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It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.
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Art
Connections
Spirit
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I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.
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Always Believe
Should
Stories
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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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Drawing
Feels
World
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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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Path
Sometimes
World
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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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Path
Steps
Way
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Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.
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Becoming
Sea
Tides
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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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Needs
People
Real
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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
Depth
Giving
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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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Space
Believe
Heart
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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.
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Jobs
Country
Troll
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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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Men
Healing
Self
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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
Clear
Ideas
Take Time
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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.
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House
Typical
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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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Always Trying
Eye
Heart
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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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Fairy
Land
Legends
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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.
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Design
Advertising
Honest
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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
Rubbish
Way
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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.
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Evil
Moving
Responsibility
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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
Depth
People
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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.
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College
Fairy Tale
Real
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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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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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Eye
Heart
Looks
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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
Roots
Voice
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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.
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New York
Home
Cities
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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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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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Fairy
Thinking
Way
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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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Journey
Beautiful
Our World
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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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Imagination
Everyday
Real
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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
Fairy
People
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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.
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Art
Church
People
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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
Connections
Reality
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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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Moon
Passion
Song
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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.
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Attention
Lying
Views
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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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