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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.