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

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.

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

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.