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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.” quote by Willard Wigan — Download Open image

“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

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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.'

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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…

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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…

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My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

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I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

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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…

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Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.

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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…

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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

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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…

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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

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