142 Quotes by Philippe Petit

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.

If it’s a problem of fire, fire might very well be the answer.

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.

Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.

And do not forget that the blood of rebellion flows through your veins, that around your soul meanders the river of perfection; above all stay devoted to your art – even if it is only the art of living! – above all remain loyal to it.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

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.