Willard Wigan quotes
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“I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”
-- Willard WiganSource : "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.
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“The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.”
-- Willard WiganSource : "Micrisculptor's Incredible Hulk fits in eye of needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.
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“I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.”
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“As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.”
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“At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.”
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“I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.”
-- Willard WiganSource : "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.
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“My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.”
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“My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.”
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“I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.”
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“People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that,”
-- Willard WiganSource : "The world's leading micro artist has finally made it big". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 2007.
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“I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.”
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“When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.”
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“When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.”
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“At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.”
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“I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.”
-- Willard WiganSource : "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007.
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“Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.”
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“The microscopic world became my obsession.”
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