KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Philippe Petit Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Philippe Petit

Showing 51-60 of 94 Quotes by Philippe Petit

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.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.

~Philippe Petit

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Celebrity

Born: August 13th, 1949

Links

Find Philippe Petit on Amazon

Related Authors

Robert Byrne
Ric Flair
Paris Hilton
Hulk Hogan
Kim Kardashian
Rodney King
Imelda Marcos
Ayrton Senna

Popular Authors

Bill Burr John F. Kennedy Shiv Khera Marquis De Lafayette John D. Rockefeller Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles Spurgeon Rabindranath Tagore

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Brainy Dad Fear Great Peace Positive Society Thankful