A couple of days ago I watched Anamorph, a movie starring Willem Dafoe as some detective or something. It was mostly rubbish, but there were some quotes which I really liked.

Like this one, “OK, I got Velazquez portrait of the Pope Innocent X. Quite an ambivalent study of absolute power. And here comes Francis Bacon. Despite never having seen this painting in person, Bacon became so obsessed with it that he compulsively repainted it over and over again, each version more horrific than the previous.”

Then there’s some nonsense about some murders and stuff like that… but then the same character, who was some sort of art dealer or whatever, says, “ It’s not until an artist finds his obsession that he can create his most inspired work.” Continue reading →