The following quote from Aniela Jaffe shows impressiveness - having an impact on a person's psyche - in art:
"French painter, Marcel Duchamp set up an object chosen at random (a bottle rack) on a pedestal and exhibited it. Jean Bazaine wrote of it: 'This bottle rack, torn from it's utilitarian context and washed up on the beach has been invested with the lonely dignity of the derelict.'"
Jaffe continues to describe the bottle rack using the words "disturbing," "exalted," and "magical."
The quality of being magical wasn't in the bottle rack itself. The magical quality was imbued when viewers became disturbed and questioned whether the object qualified as art. This reaction shows that art makes an impression - has impressiveness - and has the power to move us psychologically.
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