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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.
- Willard Wigan
#Brain
#Failure
#Life
#My Life
#Teacher
We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.
- Willard Wigan
#Made
#Money
#My Own
#Own
#Toys
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
- Willard Wigan
#Big
#I Am
#Nothing
#Now
#People
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
- Willard Wigan
#Best
#Me
#People
#Seen
#Work
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
#Be The First
#Black
#First
#History
There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.
- Willard Wigan
#Inside
#Me
#Still
#Times
#Work
Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.
- Willard Wigan
#Believe
#How
#See
#Small
#Work
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
#Difficulties
#Find
#Learning
#Me
#Way
The microscopic world became my obsession.
- Willard Wigan
#Became
#Microscopic
#Obsession
#World
Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
- Willard Wigan
#Flying
#Fun
#Helicopters
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
- Willard Wigan
#Failure
#My Own
#Nothing
#School
#World
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
- Willard Wigan
#First Time
#People
#See
#Time
#Work
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
#Grow
#Me
#Pain
#Work
#World
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
#Escape
#Fantasy
#Home
#Person
#World
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
#Body
#Carving
#Learning
#School
#Trouble
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
- Willard Wigan
#Me
#Mother
#Name
#Words
#Work
I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
- Willard Wigan
#Hair
#Like
#Mad
#Professor
#Without
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
#Believe
#Earth
#Man
#Me
#Work
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
#Back
#Live
#Me
#Shoes
#World
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
#Body
#Control
#Fingers
#Movement
#Work
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
#Camel
#Heaven
#Man
#Rich
#Through
There is a child in all of us.
- Willard Wigan
#Child
#Us
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