Larry Harvey

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the…

— Larry Harvey

I think it's a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing…

— Larry Harvey

As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.

— Larry Harvey

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then…

— Larry Harvey

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers'…

— Larry Harvey

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are…

— Larry Harvey

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

— Larry Harvey

Kleenex would have made a mint today.

— Larry Harvey

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.

— Larry Harvey

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.

— Larry Harvey

Artists deserve to make a living

— Larry Harvey

People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the…

— Larry Harvey

Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share…

— Larry Harvey

We see culture as a self-organising thing.

— Larry Harvey

Belief is thought at rest.

— Larry Harvey

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

— Larry Harvey

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by…

— Larry Harvey

People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes…

— Larry Harvey

If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other…

— Larry Harvey

The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the…

— Larry Harvey

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

— Larry Harvey

We didn't worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach…

— Larry Harvey

I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.

— Larry Harvey

The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people…

— Larry Harvey

People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.

— Larry Harvey