Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Everyday when you wake-up, say to yourself: "Everyday, in everyway, I only get better, better and better!

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.