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Philippe Petit Quotes

French - Celebrity | August 13, 1949 -

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.

Anniversary Walk I Am World Year

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.

Walk Anchor Sides Point Both Sides

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

World You Done Reason High Normal

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

Walking Street High Been Performing

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 a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Walk People Said Become Right Twin

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.

Age Creativity School Parents People

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Magic Out High Practicing Arts Wire

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 more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

Life Beautiful Death Me Gambling

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.

Life Beauty Science Soul Poetry You

It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.

Life Eyes Feel My Life Back Street

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

Change Focus Look Down Point High

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.

Heart Art You Artist Living Only

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