Quotes by Philippe Petit - Page 3

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Defying
Punching
Life Death Beautiful
Indecent
Nose
Wishing
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I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Fighting
Practice
Wind
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Certain
Creating
Forbidden
Found
Intellectual
Little Bit
Rebellion
Totally
Bit
Total
Hard Thing
Involves
Somehow
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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 theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Engineering
Fascinated
Madness
Mingling
Wire
Constructing
Drawn
Stands
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I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Certitude
Notre Dame
Performing
Permission
Sydney
Wire
World Trade
World Trade Center
Faith World Me
Bridge
Center
Dame
Developed
First Step
Harbor
Safely
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Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Alive
Brain
Pillow
Wake Up
Asleep
Direction
Solution
Speaking
Wake
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If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Art
Inspire
Lots Of Friends
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Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Exercise
Ideas
Years
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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 / Artist
Granite
Rope
Wire
I Am Me Balance
Solid
Shoulder
Tight
Wood
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I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Space
Creating
Sky
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I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Bridges
Naturally
Slowly
Monkey
Ropes
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I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Easter
Beautiful
Islands
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How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Concrete
Rope
Steel
Towers
Actual
Love Me Human
Love Me Why
Glass
Thousands
Tight
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Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Access
Devices
End Of The World
Feet
Harbour
Notre Dame
Structure
Sydney
World Trade Center
Bridge
Center
Dame
Dogs
Electronic
Police Station
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You can always find a way to do something. Now, of course, when I do the action, it's an action that inspires people, it's a gift to people, it's not the other way around, I do not take something, I do not hurt people. Yes, I think today would be more than impossible and yet part of me would think that I continue to think that nothing is impossible.
Philippe Petit / Artist
Hurt
People
Thinking
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