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" I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out. "

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" It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. "

" 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. "

" 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've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. "

" My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy. "

" I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me. "

" 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. "

" To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. "

" 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. "

" For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera. "

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step. "

" Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain. "

" I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection. "

" 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. "

" As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. "

" 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. "