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

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.

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

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

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

Appreciate me now and avoid the rush.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

If you don't believe in it, you can't do it.

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.