Good artists copy, great artists steal... programmers buy.

Well good programmers should look into buying royalty free icons, there's some great icon foundries that offer them and the quality is much higher than most could replicate.

I firmly believe that anyone can draw or paint with the right instruction, but who has that kind of time? Crack open the pocket book. Pay a starving artist, feed them, that's why they are so skinny and pale. No one ever feeds them!