Dedication Gallery

In Honor of Artistic Minds

Welcome to our Novelty of Nous Dedication Gallery honoring a selection of diverse Artistic Minds, past and present

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein

"Things and their opposites are not so irreconcilable as they may seem. What we call opposites are often facets of one and the same thing." - Iain McGilchrist

"Art is distinguished by its sudden glories, its irrational and irregular irruptions of light in the midst of universal darkness." - Herbert E. Read | Novelty of Nous

"Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions." - Ellen Langer

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."- Carl R Rogers

"The more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life." - Meredith Monk

Wendell Berry | Agrarian Poet | iNous Dedication Gallery

"The artist is one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will, and personal aims, but as an artist he is a vehicle and molder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." - Carl Jung

"Consciousness is present in various degrees of enfoldment and unfoldment in all matter." - Michael Talbot

"I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless." - Buckminster Full

"Life is a pattern, a movement, a syncopation of matter; something produced in counterpoint to the rhythms of contingency; a rare and wonderfully unreasonable thing." - Lyall Watson

"Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness." - John Cage

"There's an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. You enliven it, you unfold it, it grows." - David Lynch

Each dedication in our Gallery is a Novelty of Nous, an inspirational prompt reflecting the wisdom of Artistic Mind through an intuitive pairing of visual muse and verbal mantra.

The Artistic Mind illuminators featured in our Dedication Gallery are multiversed and multidiscipinary. Not all of them are practising artists – in the common use of the word as a profession or social role. But they are all artistically minded in their approach to knowing, being and expressing.

Read Maxine Greene on Metaphors and Responsibility

The nuggets of nous curated here reflect the timeless wisdom of mystics, writers, painters, poets, philosophers, dancers, actors, activists, teachers, biologists, designers, architects, historians, shamans, sculptors, scientists, psychologists, sages and more. As free-spirited individuals, these illuminators of Artistic Mind have discovered and practised ways and means of accessing the infinite source of creative potential known as nous. Some have used reverie, contemplation and active imagination, while others have used ecstatic states, dreaming or embodied practises.

Read Eugenio Barba on theatre as an embodied know-how

We refer to them as illuminators because they have all shared their inspirational insights through an array of languages capable of handling the abstract – including poetic words, evocative images, symbolic movements, or resonant sounds.

Listen to Nora Bateson on art as a paradox of communication

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