Willard Wigan Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Willard Wigan quotes and sayings (sculptor). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.”
“There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.”
“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.”
“My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.”
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