Confessions of an Outlaw; with Philippe Petit Video Lecture | Confessions of an Outlaw: A Creativity Workshop - Self Help Learning

Anyone that embarks into the arts and even
if you’re not an artist or a performer in
the art of living as an extension will have
the most difficult life because it’s the
opposite of lethargy and laziness and dragging
your feet and dying as you live.
So if you want your life to be exciting, if
you find the model necessary for a great life,
which is passion, you will have a difficult
life.
And at the same time your life will be very
easy in a sense that you will not have to
struggle to find ways.
It is in you.
It devours you.
You have to do it using your intuition and
your passion.
So, for example, well people sometimes ask
me, you know, how can I be creative or I want
to be – I am a young artist and I want to
develop my art.
And right there I build a big wall between
two concepts that to me are very opposite.
The concept of a career and the concept of
life.
So if somebody says you know I’m starting
a career as an actor.
Do you have any advice?
I say yes, drop the word career from your
vocabulary.
Live as an actor, you know.
Don’t try to do things in a strategy way.
Do things as your heart tells you.
If you feel you’re a comic character do
not accept any drama.
Go into the comic and start developing it
and don’t let anybody tell you anything
else.
That’s a little bit simplistic but it’s
just to force people to abandon and the work
of art is a perpetual trampoline.
It is ephemeral.
It is fragile.
It is mysterious.
There is no rule to describe what an artistic
way of life is.
So if you want to go in an artistic way of
life and you carry the luggage of money and
time and strategy and politics and well you
will never be an artist, you know.
But it’s fine.
Many false artists are doing that.
But the true artist in my opinion should not
think of a career.
You should think of your life.