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Top 30 Philippe Petit Quotes (2025 Update)

Philippe Petit Quote: “It’s impossible, that’s for sure. So let’s start working.”

1. “It’s impossible, that’s for sure. So let’s start working.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I know it’s impossible. But I know I’ll do it!”

2. “I know it’s impossible. But I know I’ll do it!”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.”

3. “Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge – and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.”

4. “Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge – and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Life should be lived on the edge of life.”

5. “Life should be lived on the edge of life.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I don’t have a career, I have a life. Don’t think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.”

6. “I don’t have a career, I have a life. Don’t think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “If I die, what a beautiful death.”

7. “If I die, what a beautiful death.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Passion is the model of all my actions.”

8. “Passion is the model of all my actions.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.”

9. “I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I don’t like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.”

10. “I don’t like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what’s impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.”

11. “Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what’s impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.”

12. “Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.”

13. “When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.”

14. “For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I am the poet of the high wire – I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.”

16. “I am the poet of the high wire – I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.”

17. “I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.”

18. “The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I have walked many times around the world and each time it’s different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It’s really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.”

19. “I have walked many times around the world and each time it’s different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It’s really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “There is no such thing as motivation in my world. I am not motivated to do what I do. As an artist, I am driven, I am compelled, I am thrust forward by a force so rooted inside me, so convincing, that it seems futile to try to explain it. Although it has a name: passion.”

20. “There is no such thing as motivation in my world. I am not motivated to do what I do. As an artist, I am driven, I am compelled, I am thrust forward by a force so rooted inside me, so convincing, that it seems futile to try to explain it. Although it has a name: passion.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it’s very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I’m sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.”

21. “If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it’s very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I’m sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.”

24. “I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.”

25. “The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?”

27. “Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “If it’s a problem of fire, fire might very well be the answer.”

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

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

— Philippe Petit

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