Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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