In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I can dance to just about anything.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I love movement. I love moshing.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Music is in my DNA!

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

People want to feel hopeful.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.