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Philippe Petit walks between World Trade Center's twin towers, August 1974
“Suspended between the tangible and the ephemeral, I find myself pondering: Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am a prisoner of my dream.”
—Philippe Petit, Man on Wire
“Creativity takes courage.”
—Henri Matisse
Join renowned high-wire artist Philippe Petit in a lively impromptu conversation on creativity and risk-taking, and hear him read his first published poem!
As chronicled in his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, Mr. Petit is best known for accomplishing what has been called the “artistic crime of the century,” a breathtaking, illegal high-wire walk between New York City’s former Twin Towers.
Petit says walking on that cable was an effort to “extend the boundaries of poetry.” Petit’s book Creativity: The Perfect Crime reveals new and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor—from generating and shaping ideas to practicing and problem-solving to pulling off the coup itself—executing a finished work.
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