What can we learn from artists about their art that is not in their art? There has been a spate of books this year that suggests artists’ own observations might tell us more about their work than professional critics. Richard Cork has recently published Face to Face, a collection from over 30 years of interviews with British-based artists; Catherine Lampert has given her study of Frank Auerbach the appropriate subtitle Speaking and Painting; and Michael Craig-Martin – like Gormley, an artist who sometimes alludes to his Catholic background – mixes memoir and personal philosophy in On Being An Artist. And now we have a collection of talks, lectures and broadcasts by Antony Gormley, in which he reflects on his own work as well as that of other sculptors. It is an absorbing