“Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when ...” — Philippe Petit Quote

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.

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 walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

What is art but a way of seeing?

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.