Sympathy for the art gallery

Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World - Scientific American

Examples: children believe that the sun can think and follows them around; because of such beliefs, they often add smiley faces on sketched suns. Cute.

But I am starting to believe that what makes art art is exactly what appeals to this supersense of us humans and why it communicates on such a subconscious level, and why even the most obscure/ conceptual/ surrealist art can have such a profound effect.