All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) - ISBN: 9781429979641