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

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.

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

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

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

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