Willard Wigan Quotes

• 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

  Moving, Watches, Half

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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.

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  Growing Up, Pain, School

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• People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

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  People, Firsts, First Time

  "The world's leading micro artist has finally made it big". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 2007.

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• A la gente le resulta muy, muy difícil creer lo que he hecho. Los científicos han visto mi trabajo y no se lo explican. Incluso los nanocientíficos lo han visto y se han quedado totalmente sorprendidos. Pero si algún hombre en la Tierra quiere desafiarme, estoy listo. Adelante.

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  Believe, Men, People

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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

  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

  "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007.

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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.

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  Believe, Kids, World

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

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  People, Bigs

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• En casa, cuando las tuberías de la calefacción hacían ruido, me imaginaba que había una persona diminuta saltando con una cuerda. El mundo de fantasía de las cosas diminutas se convirtió en mi vía de escape.

  Willard Wigan

  Home, World, Noise

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• Just because you can't see something,
  doesn't mean it's not there.

  Willard Wigan

  Media

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• The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

  Willard Wigan

  Names, Bigger

  "Micrisculptor's Incredible Hulk fits in eye of needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

  Willard Wigan

  Fun, Flying, Helicopters

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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.

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  Black, President, Firsts

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

  Willard Wigan

  Hair, Mad, Professors

  "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

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

  Willard Wigan

  People, Best Of Me

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• The microscopic world became my obsession.

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  World, Obsession

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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, Size

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• No aprendí nada en la escuela, así que vivía en mi propio mundo.

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  School, World, Just Live

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• There is a child in all of us.

  Willard Wigan

  Niños

  "Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct [3.20]". TV Series, 2000.

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• All creatures are great and small.

  Willard Wigan

  Criaturas

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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.

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  Escuela, Niños, Habilidades

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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

  Teacher, Careers, Shoes

  "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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