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“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.”

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Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan is a British micro-artist renowned for his intricate artworks created at an extremely small scale. Born in 1957, Wigan has always been fascinated by the microcosm. Through years of practice and exploration, he has developed a unique skill of micro-engraving, capable of carving complex patterns and sculptures on the tip of a needle. more

“The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it.”

Thinking Wells Heart Made Feelings Beautiful Three Process Pleasure Objects Involved Originals Following Made It Evolve Tangible

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“To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.”

Mean Different Grows Creative Creation Produce Negative Posts Impulse Motive Frustrating Postmodernism Creative Thought

Author:Eva Zeisel

“When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.”

Ifs Looks Happened Finished

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“When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”

Thinking Design

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