A painter, Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, once said: My work is purely autobiographical ... It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know... When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
He also said: I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.