- Title: Have Poison Within Yourself - Author: Tarō Okamoto - ISBN: 9784413096843 - Price: 740 yen Thank you for viewing. I have kept this book after reading it once. Includes color illustrations. (Introduction) Have Poison Within Yourself: Can you abandon being a "common sense person"? This is a new edition of the paperback book the author published in 1993. It was written three years before his death. It encourages and inspires people living in the present. Reflecting on his own life, he says that from the moment he was born into this world (although he probably doesn't remember), through elementary school, his time studying in Paris, and up to the present day, it has been a "continuous explosion of his own thoughts, without being confined to a set framework." The author's assertion is clear: "Don't kill your individuality to fit into the group. If each person doesn't think seriously and explode their own thoughts, the world will become boring." The words that it is necessary to push yourself in order to create something are the cries of the author who lived as an artist. The hot and harsh messages contained in numerous avant-garde art works come through, and you are encouraged. #TarōOkamoto #Bestseller #LongSeller #Art #ViewOfLife #LifeBible #TowerOfTheSun #Expo #Makonari