The photograph reproduces objects in a different way from the painted picture, because the camera does not apprehend objects: it sees them. In 'free-hand drawing' the object is apprehended in all it parts... By tracing the outlines with the aid of a projector you can bypass and elaborate this process of apprehension. You no longer apprehend but see and make (without design) what you have not apprehended. And when you don't know what you are making, you don't know, either, what to alter or distort.


p. 51, note 60 - 'Doubt and belief in painting' (2003)

Gerhard Richter Quotes

The photograph reproduces objects in a different way from the painted picture, because the camera does not apprehend objects: it sees them. In...

The photograph reproduces objects in a different way from the painted picture, because the camera does not apprehend objects: it sees them. In...

The photograph reproduces objects in a different way from the painted picture, because the camera does not apprehend objects: it sees them. In...

The photograph reproduces objects in a different way from the painted picture, because the camera does not apprehend objects: it sees them. In...