Philippe Petit Quotes

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• There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
• Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my…
• My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
• I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
• I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was…
• My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
• I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
• I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of…
• 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 did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
• Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
• Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
• Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become…
• What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school,…
• I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
• I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have…
• For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much…
• I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the…
• It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
• 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…

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