Known around the world for his stark portraits of people in less than flattering poses, British painter Lucian Freud passed away last week at 88. In the documentary Lucian Freud Portraits filmmaker Jake Auerbach and Freud’s biographer William Feaver interviewed Freud’s subjects over a 2 year period. Freud was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and won the acclaim of many as one of the best figurative painters of the 20th century. Revealing the secrets of many; aging, obesity and other faults that most of us try so hard to hide from the world, Freud said he painted people “not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.” Here is a glimpse from the documentary about Freud in the words of the people who posed for him.