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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Once you step onto the fairy path, it’s almost like there’s no way off. You have to keep going.

Brian Froud

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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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  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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  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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  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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