Picasso paints a picture and he signs it. If he hadn’t signed it, if he painted out of total anonymity, it would have quite a different quality, like the great cathedrals and temples, where nobody knows who built them. But if you say, ‘Well, it’s painted by Picasso,’ then it’s finished – then it is in the field of time, and it loses the great quality of beauty.
From Scientists Seminar 5, Brockwood Park, 8 June 1975