The artist shares

But how can they justify this kind of censorship? You write music! Music is a cooperative art, organic by definition, social. It may be the noblest form of social behaviour we're capable of. It's certainly one of the noblest jobs an individual can undertake. And by its nature, buy the nature of any art, it's a sharing. The artist shares, it's the essence of his act.

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossed (Gollancz, 2002) p. 146