Room 9 Naked Portrait 2001 Freud sees painting people without their clothes as a way of encouraging them to shed their protective façades, and to reveal more basic aspects of their instincts and desires. 'I'm really interested in people as animals. Part of my liking to work from them naked is for that reason. Because I can see more; and it's also very exciting to see the forms repeating right through the body and often the head as well. I like people to look as natural and as physically as ease as animals.'