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Top 23 Willard Wigan Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“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

“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

“I’m like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.”

― Willard Wigan

“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

“I’m just honoring my mother’s words. She always told me, ‘The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.’”

― Willard Wigan

“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

“Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.”

― Willard Wigan

“The microscopic world became my obsession.”

― Willard Wigan

“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

“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

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

― Willard Wigan

“There are times when I’ve inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.”

― Willard Wigan

“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

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

― Willard Wigan

“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

“As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.”

― Willard Wigan

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

― Willard Wigan

“We didn’t have money for toys, so I made my own.”

― Willard Wigan

“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

“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

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

― Willard Wigan

“There is a child in all of us.”

― Willard Wigan

“I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.”

― Willard Wigan

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