High wire artist and magician Philippe Petit, famous for his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers, reveals new and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor, from generating and shaping ideas to practicing and problem-solving to executing a finished work. In his book Creativity: The Perfect Crime, he offers strategies and insights that resonate with artists of every kind—actors, musicians, dancers, painters, writers, sculptors—as well as with ordinary people in search of fresh ways of tackling everyday challenges.