Quotes from Philippe Petit

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air I breathed was the plan itself. Until I became the plan

Believe in the miracles that exist around you, inside others, in you. Go look for them. Feed your imagination. In this way, build your destiny.

By the way, when the tongue is eager to meet an extraordinary wine, when the palate is in hope of being flooded with the sublime, the human jaws are not at will to clearly articulate the traditional "À vôtre santé!" Their impatience to start the drinking process produces a delightful elliptic version, heard constantly throughout wine-tasting cellars, that is: "À vôt' santé!

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air

E chi non vuole intraprendere una lotta accanita di sforzi inutili, pericoli profondi, trappole, chi non è pronto a dare tutto per sentirsi vivere, non ha bisogno di diventare funambolo. Soprattutto , non lo potrebbe.

La corsa non è il modo per andare rapidamente da un'estremità all'altra del filo. La corsa, ah, ah! é il riso del funambolo

Finché il vento dei nostri pensieri, più violento di quello dell'equilibrio, tornerà presto a far volteggiare verso le nubi questa piuma così sensibile.

I limiti, le trappole, le impossibilità mi sono necessari, vado loro incontro ogni giorno. Ritengo che la frusta sia necessaria, a condizione che a maneggiarla sia l'allievo, non il maestro.

Uomo dell'aria, tu colora col sangue le ore sontuose del tuo passaggio fra noi. I limiti esistono soltanto nell'anima di chi è a corto di sogni.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

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.

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

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.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

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

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that's where life starts, that's where you start feeling yourself living.

Passion is the model of all my actions.

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.