In a recent Ono Salon conversation, Professor Shaun McNiff—the renowned pioneer in creative and expressive arts therapies—offered a rich tapestry of insights that challenged, inspired, and deepened our understanding of art’s intrinsic value. The symposium, hosted by Dr. Michal Lev and Professor Vivien Speiser, the founder of the first academic Expressive Arts Therapy program in Israel, was the opening session in the series Ono Salon: Conversations with Creative and Expressive Art Therapies Pioneers, and revolved around McNiff’s central philosophy: the authenticity of art as evidence and its capacity to stand on its own as a profound form of intelligence.