We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

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.

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

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

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.

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