Quotes by Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit

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.

Preparation

Risk

Wire

For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

Air

Block

Safety

I am the poet of the high wire – I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Poet

Stuntman

Wire

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.

Beautiful

Easter

Islands

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

Dancer

Dancing

Example

I don’t have a career, I have a life. Don’t think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

Inspiration

Passion

Thinking

I don’t like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

Looks

Risk

Years

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

Challenges

Focus

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.

Creating

Sky

Space

I know it’s impossible. But I know I’ll do it!

Impossible

Knows

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Agency

Air

Art

Beautiful

Beautiful Death

Believe

Block

Boundaries

Challenges

Cities

Classical Music

Clouds

Creating

Creative

Dancer

Dancing

Dies

Different

Doe

Dream

Easter

Edges

Example

Exercise

Existential

Fall

Feelings

Feet

Fighting

Focus

Heart

Hiking

Hurt

Ideas

Impossible

Inspiration

Inspire

Islands

Journey

Knows

Leadership

Life

Limits

Long

Looks

Lots Of Friends

Motivation

Mountain

Moving

Other Worlds

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Quotes by Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit

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.

For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

I am the poet of the high wire – I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

I don’t have a career, I have a life. Don’t think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

I don’t like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

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.

I know it’s impossible. But I know I’ll do it!

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