Let's see, by extension... Since my wife the Caligrapher doesn't cut her own pens, grind her own pigments, and make her own paper (all skills she has mastered, but uses only sparingly, for the sake of time) then her work isn't "art" either. A painter that doesn't stretch his/her own canvas, make his/her own brushes, and mix his/her own paints, doesn't make "art". A sculpter needs to make his own hammers and chisels, abrasives, etc. A 3D model maker should write his/her own modeling program.. Com'on, the "art" is in the final creation. EVERY artist uses some type of building blocks mixed and matched to make their creation! Hasn't this been hashed over enough? mike