I agree that the artist is more of the person than the tool used. For me an artistic master isn't someone who uses some software, like vue or something, but what comes out from his/her hands/mind. Like the artists of old, I have never read in any of my art history books where some painter commented that he used a highquality brush that was the pivot point to him making quality art.

Being funny, I can almost imagine it, though, if we were to take some comments commonly posted in a thread comparing software and associate it to old world art. Can you imagine someone saying "I bought this camel hair brush and now I'm better doing my oils with it than I ever was with a horse hair brush." Or "real artists make their own pigments." Or more to the point, where is it written where one of the old great masters attributed the quality of his paintings to a specific type of brush, or a specific type of canvas. Is it not skill with the tools at hand?

So I agree too. 

But now with that said, I must admit that there is only one tool fit for comment.. and that is Bryce ;-)