Creation (Score 1)

When an artist creates, does he necessarily have to be the creator of the platform on which he creates..? Does a painter actually make paint - -and even then, say he actually made his own paint, you could still say he didn't make the rocks and plants and whatever of which the paint is made, and so the word 'create' loses all meaning, except when attributed to a first-cause god-thing. If humans can create anything - prose, sculpture, architecture or whatever - you must assume that create in this sense means something more akin to compose or synthesis rather than the biblical 'create' - even when it comes to life. I argued this point precisely on my blog.