to is a well-established facet of our culture. (One can see how there are certain advantages to the artist in this particular myth.)
But while the composer (to take just one example) may well lock himself up in a loft apartment, descending only once every few weeks to buy groceries, no artist actually ever works alone. Even this seemingly isolated composer writes on paper that someone manufactured (using trees or another source of pulp produced by someone else), using ink that someone produced (or a computer that someone made using software that someone else designed), sitting in a chair and at a desk t
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