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

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.

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

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

Life can be a strange yet wonderful experience to live, if only you learn to enjoy it more.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.