Damian Woetzel Quotes

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I'm always creative.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.