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At the base of her argument, Rand asserts that one cannot create art without infusing a given work with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy.

Even if the artist attempts to withhold moral overtones, the work becomes tinged with a deterministic or naturalistic message.

The next logical step of Rand's argument is that the audience of any particular work cannot help but come away with some sense of a philosophical message, colored by his or her own personal values, ingrained into their psyche by whatever degree of emotional impact the work holds for them.