“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.” WorldRealSpiritPurposeImaginationEverydayFantastic Author:Brian Froud
“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.” WorldFeelsHelpingLyingViewsPayAttentionBreakPoint Of ViewTricksFairyBarriersFlatsBadness Author:Brian Froud
“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.” WorldHardMovingEvilResponsibilityPaintingMoving ForwardIntroducingTaking Responsibility Author:Brian Froud
“To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.” WorldSometimesSeemsPathIntolerance Author:Brian Froud
“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.” WorldSoulBodySongPassionBloodLandEmotionalSorrowMoonDenyRageChosenPulseFluidFaeriePortalFull MoonChosen One Author:Brian Froud
“For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.” WorldFeelsDrawing Author:Brian Froud
“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.” WorldBeautifulWaitingWalksPathJourneyInfiniteEdgesGuidesMysteriousOur WorldFaerieInviting Author:Brian Froud
“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.” MenWorldSelfRememberNaturalHealingMen And WomenNatural WorldReflectingMicrocosm Book:Faeries' Oracle Source: Faeries' Oracle
