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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.

Brian Froud

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.
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Existing Fairies Garden Lakes Land
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
It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.
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Art Connections Spirit
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
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 Interior Looks Remember
I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.
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Always Believe Should Stories
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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Hobbit House Incredibly Typical
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 Understand
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
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 Introduce Moving Responsibility Something
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 Real Tale Underlying
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 Larger Men Natural Self
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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Expect Irrational Look Moments Space
I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.
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Paint Soul Spirit
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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Country Jobs Troll
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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Day Every Fabtastic Imagination Real

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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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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