This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way. Philippe Petit Read Quote
It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life. Philippe Petit Read Quote
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It’s to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That’s how I enjoyed fame in ’74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. Philippe Petit Read Quote
I’ve frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. Philippe Petit Read Quote
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. Philippe Petit Read Quote
I’m a wire-walker, but actually, I’m a moviemaker that hasn’t done his first movie. Philippe Petit Read Quote
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn’t have feelings, I had certainties. Philippe Petit Read Quote
You see, it’s actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that’s where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. Philippe Petit Read Quote
It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me. Philippe Petit Read Quote
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be. Philippe Petit Read Quote
