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Art, imo (respectfully said), is merely a way for one individual to express, and at the same moment, attempt to elicit, an emotional response from another individual, without necessarily dictating what that emotion “should” be.
Outside of portrait or specific story art, which intrinsically elicits an emotion (attempts to), that either the consumer wants (and pre-pays for) or the artist specifically wants an individual to experience (disgust over pictures of war, gore, arousal from sexual images, etc).
I think the best art is never interpreted by two people exactly the same, and each individual takes from it what they will, to either answer some question in their own mind, or deny the question to begin with (it's not art because I don't like it).
The question art asks is: How does this make you feel?
There are no right answers; each individual sees art through their own experiences in life. When we listen to each other try to interpret art we learn to look at something in a different way, in a way we may never have seen, had we not taken the time, to listen to the emotional responses of others.
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you can tell them all you want but it won't matter until they think it does
p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes. 
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