Willard Wigan famous quotes

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

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
-- Willard Wigan

#Names #Bigger

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

#People #Bigs

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

#Believe #Kids #World

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

#Pain #Growing Up #School

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
-- Willard Wigan

#Fun #Flying #Helicopters

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

#Hair #Mad #Professors

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

#Teacher #Brain #Size

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

#People #Best Of Me

I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
-- Willard Wigan

#School #World #Just Live

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that,
-- Willard Wigan

#People #Firsts #First Time

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 #Half #Watches

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

#Black #President #Firsts

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

#School #Kids #Skills

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

#Home #Rope #World

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

#Thinking #People #Trying

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

#Mean

All creatures are great and small.
-- Willard Wigan

#Creatures

There is a child in all of us,
-- Willard Wigan

#Children

The microscopic world became my obsession.
-- Willard Wigan

#World #Obsession