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Top 30 Brian Froud Quotes (2025 Update)

Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Brian Froud

Brian Froud Quote: “To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.”

2. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “Once you step onto the fairy path, it’s almost like there’s no way off. You have to keep going.”

3. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “The sylph is a fragment of the earth’s soul in faery form.”

7. “The sylph is a fragment of the earth’s soul in faery form.”

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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.”

12. “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.”

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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.”

16. “For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.”

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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.”

21. “I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.”

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Brian Froud Quote: “I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It’s the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.”

22. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.”

23. “It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.”

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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

25. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

26. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.”

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

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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

30. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “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.”

31. “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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Brian Froud Quote: “To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.”

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

— Brian Froud

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