Quotes by Willard Wigan - Page 1

There is a child in all of us.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Us
Child
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All creatures are great and small.
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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Flying
Fun
Helicopters
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The microscopic world became my obsession.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Obsession
World
Microscopic
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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Hair
Mad
Professors
Professor
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The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Bigger
Names
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I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Just Live
School
World
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My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Best Of Me
People
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People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Willard Wigan / Artist
First Time
Firsts
People
Swear
Work Time People
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Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.
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I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Bigs
People
I Am People Nothing
Showing
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There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Inside
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I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
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My Friend
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Kids
Thank You
Ants
Believe
Fantasy
World
Fantasy World
Thank
They Say
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I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
Willard Wigan / Artist
Honoring
Work Me Words
Smaller
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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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Teacher
Brain
Classroom
Miserable
Size
Singling
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Barack
Black
Firsts
President
Smallest
Tribute
Barack Obama
Be The First
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Kids
Carving
School
Skills
Disabilities
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Half
Moving
Watches
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When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Fingers
Joints
Movement
Pulse
Your Body
Work Your Body
Microscopic
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Growing Up
Pain
School
Grow Up
Reflects
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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.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Home
Fantasy
Heating
Noise
Rope
Tiny
World
Escape
Fantasy World
Imagined
Noises
Pipes
Skipping
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I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Heaven
Rich Man
Camel
Needle
Pass
Sculpt
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People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Men
Believe
People
Shocked
Work Believe Man
Explain
Scientists
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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 Wigan / Artist
Embarrassment
People
Significant
Thinking
Tiny
Trying
Learning Me People
Difficulties
More And More
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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 Wigan / Artist
Teacher
Ants
Careers
Criticize
Dyslexia
Fantasy
Hats
Needed
Shoes
World Me Live
Teachers
Somewhere
Began
Escaped
Fantasy World
Houses
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