My two cents: the hubbub about the Apple’s ad for the iPad is a PERFECT example of people confusing a tool with the art (and the artist).

A skilled artist can take a child’s paint set and make stunning art; create glorious music banging rocks together.

No one is denigrated by Apple crushing objects it owns.

A trumpet or piano is a tool. Artists (real ones) call them tools. They are neither art nor the artist.