Philippe Petit Quotes

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.

Philippe Petit

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • War
  • Feeling

• A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Why
  • Pretty

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Miracles

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.

  

  Penn Badgley
  • Sexy
  • Beach

• We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Peace
  • Jesus
  • Generation

• If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art

• Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

  

  Cory Booker
  • World
  • Heart
  • Help

• The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • History
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Heart
  • Art