Dasha Zhukova Quotes

I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

I'm young, Russian, I come from money, and I date a very well-known person.

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

I like messy. What fun is tidy?

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

I'm not interested in business for business's sake.

I want to work in art forever.

I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

I used to arm wrestle my roommate in college. Based on that, I'm in pretty good shape.

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

I have always dreamed of bringing an exhibit of Mark Rothko to Moscow.

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.