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There is a child in all of us.
All creatures are great and small.
Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
The microscopic world became my obsession.
I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.