Kurt Wagner famous quotes

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Doors #Tails #Born

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now
-- Kurt Wagner

#Fall #Mad #Normal

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Offering #Painting #Abstract

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Teacher #Teaching #School

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me. That's something that seems to happen as well when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Struggle #Writing #Together

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of perception and how information goes through our heads and it comes out another way.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Perception #Painting #Perceive

I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Teacher #Art #Jobs

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Enough Time #Painting #Busy

That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Struggle #Writing #Together

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided to try to write a song each day. Whether it was good or bad wasn't important.
-- Kurt Wagner

#Song #Writing #Thinking