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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time. "

" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "

" I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "

" Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. "

" 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. "

" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "

" Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. "

" If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. "

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "

" An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. "

" When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box. "

" I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore. "

" If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. "

" I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. "

" I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. "

" I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. "

" Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing. "

" I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. "

" It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it. "

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

" I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic. "

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

" Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers. "