How does the use of texture make expression experiential and not merely visual?

It creates feelings of struggle, hardness, or softness through a touch-like experience

Texture is the actual or implied surface quality of an artwork. Rough marks, broken strokes, raised material, or sharply repeated patterns can make the viewer imagine resistance, weight, pain, age, or struggle; smooth and softly blended surfaces may suggest calmness, tenderness, or comfort. Although the viewer may not physically touch a painting, visual texture can create a touch-like mental response, making expression bodily and experiential as well as optical. Option A is correct because it explains this connection between surface suggestion and emotional feeling. Options B, C, and D do not describe texture’s expressive function and reduce it to an irrelevant or impossible effect.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Introduction to Art. Topic: Art as a form of expression.