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Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.