Words matter. These are the best Larry Harvey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think it’s a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of Asians, black folks. I actually see black folks out here, unlike some of our liberal critics.
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
We’ve been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it’s a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.
My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren – and then there’s my son. So, it’s a biracial family.
The bicycle thing – well, since people couldn’t use their cars, they had to use their bicycles, didn’t they?
We didn’t worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing.
We don’t use the trademark to market anything. It’s our identity.
I’ll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don’t dictate those terms.
We see culture as a self-organising thing.
The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we’ve had art cars that don’t want people on board and that want private parties, and that’s in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.
I’ve learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn’t know what to make of me.
