Perspectives On The Art Of Life

Courage Is the Willingness to Pay

Courage Is the Willingness to Pay

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Courage isn’t the absence of fear — it’s the willingness to pay the price of what you value. The two ways courage fails, and a small way to practice it.

Courage Is the Willingness to Pay

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Courage isn’t the absence of fear — it’s the willingness to pay the price of what you value. The two ways courage fails, and a small way to practice it.

Sometimes Anger Should Become a Painting First

Sometimes Anger Should Become a Painting First

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Between unleashing a feeling and swallowing it, there’s a third road: give it a form. On transmuting anger, grief, and longing — in a studio, or an unsent letter.

Sometimes Anger Should Become a Painting First

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Between unleashing a feeling and swallowing it, there’s a third road: give it a form. On transmuting anger, grief, and longing — in a studio, or an unsent letter.

Letting Go of Your Own Ideas

Letting Go of Your Own Ideas

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

A belief held too tightly stops serving you and starts running you. On unhanding — holding even your firmest ideas with an open hand, and choosing the territory over the...

Letting Go of Your Own Ideas

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

A belief held too tightly stops serving you and starts running you. On unhanding — holding even your firmest ideas with an open hand, and choosing the territory over the...

What Love Asks That Feeling Doesn’t

What Love Asks That Feeling Doesn’t

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Love isn’t only a feeling — it’s a way of seeing, and something you do. The difference between love that grips and love that frees, and the test that tells...

What Love Asks That Feeling Doesn’t

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Love isn’t only a feeling — it’s a way of seeing, and something you do. The difference between love that grips and love that frees, and the test that tells...

How to Choose a Piece That Meets You

How to Choose a Piece That Meets You

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Most art-buying advice is really decorating advice. How to choose a piece that meets you — one you’ll still be glad to see in five years, not one that just...

How to Choose a Piece That Meets You

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

Most art-buying advice is really decorating advice. How to choose a piece that meets you — one you’ll still be glad to see in five years, not one that just...

You Are Not a Single Voice

You Are Not a Single Voice

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

The ‘you’ who makes the promise and the ‘you’ who breaks it aren’t the same one. Why the self is a council of voices — and why seeing that is...

You Are Not a Single Voice

Nathaniel Hunter Jr

The ‘you’ who makes the promise and the ‘you’ who breaks it aren’t the same one. Why the self is a council of voices — and why seeing that is...