#plastic

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#happiness #neuroplasticity #change

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. ↗

— John Badham

#called #clear #end #fishing #get

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#because #dollars #eastman #had #i

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. ↗

— David Bowie

#behind #dad #get #going #grow

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#bought #choose #frankenstein #mask #own

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#i #looks #personally #plastic #plastic surgery

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#anything #art #beautiful #does #dramatic

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex