Well, my thoughts are it is the user. And that users imagination. Skill is needed to pull of the ideas, but skill alone will only produce a "pretty" image with no real depth for the mind, just the eyes. I have also found around CG communities, that the images I do with the least amount of thought and inner feelings connected to them-get the most comments and are the more popular images for the most part. I suppose a lot of viewers that come to these galleries are looking more for eye candy, than to be stirred inside. Bottom line; Learning a program is merely technical. Using it to create emotional art is something one is gifted with and cannot be learned. It can be nurtured over time and brought out. But imo, it has to be there from the start. But what do I know??? :-)