Willard Wigan Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• All creatures are great and small.
• There is a child in all of us,
• People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that,
• I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
• The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
• I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
• 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…
• When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in…
• Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
• The microscopic world became my obsession.
• As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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