Philippe Petit Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Philippe Petit on Wise Famous Quotes.
When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.
Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured.
This cannot be measured.
I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.