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!

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

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.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

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!

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

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.