Phrase by 'Philippe Petit'

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When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  You , Joy , Loved , Balance


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.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Know , Care , Beginning , Action


My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Time , Work , I Am , Change


To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  You , Forget , Rules , Rebel


I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Me , Fear , Believe , Water


The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Life , You , Me , Simple


On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  I Am , High , Satisfied , Circus


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.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Life , Me , Beautiful , Death


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.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  You , Heart , Art , Artist


I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

Author: Philippe Petit - French Celebrity
  Long , Body , Feet , Walk


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