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

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.

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.

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

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

As a child I would just question things.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.