Tell me, are you truly satisfied with the way things are right now?
Why is it that, even though we live each day with all our might, we suddenly find ourselves overcome by loneliness?
Is it not because no one has yet discovered your true worth?
It is quite all right, for your new life begins right here, right now, from this very place.
Do you happen to know the name of Bernard Buffet, the prodigy of French painting?
Those sharp, powerful black straight lines he draws are, in truth, a special shield meant to gently protect your lonely heart.
Experiencing first-rate art is the sole guaranteed method to dramatically enrich your life.
“What is seen and what is not seen.”
―― Frédéric Bastiat
Just by reading this text, your eyes will begin to shine more beautifully than anyone else’s in the world.
The sooner you begin, the better it shall be, so come, let us embark on a new journey of your heart together with me.
Why Bernard Buffet’s Black Straight Lines Wipe Away All Your Daily Anxieties and Foster a Powerful Confidence
When you look at Buffet’s paintings for the very first time, you will surely receive a shock that takes your breath away.
Those pointed lines express the unspeakable sadness dwelling within your heart on your behalf.
Do you not find it mysterious why he drew such fiercely intense lines?
It is because he wished to rescue you, who are right in front of him, from the tediousness of daily life in a single instant.
While receiving tremendous acclaim from all over the world, Buffet was always fighting against loneliness, just like you.
Buffet’s paintings wrap that small wound of yours in an eye-opening tenderness.
“Opportunity always comes at first either as a crisis or appears as a burden.”
―― Aizo Soma
Your current suffering is, in fact, the very first sign of the wonderful success that is coming next.
Let us put a definitive end to wandering here and there in search of a way to make things go well.
Just by gazing at Buffet’s paintings, a powerful courage that will yield to no one will well up within your heart.
A Special VIP Seat in a Life Different from Any Other: The Collecting of Bernard Buffet’s Paintings, Which Instantly Elevates Your Mind to First-Rate
Have you mistakenly convinced yourself that the hobby of viewing paintings belongs only to the wealthy?
That is a great misunderstanding, and it is a tremendous waste for you.
This is because possessing Buffet’s works within your heart instantly elevates the value of your soul to the absolute summit.
When you come to love his paintings, your sensibility aligns perfectly with the finest people in the world.
By possessing a special, distinct perspective, your daily work and human relationships will begin to go surprisingly well.
Buffet’s art is a magical key that instantly transforms your tedious daily life into a brilliantly shining drama.
“There is no life in life; there is life in death.”
―― Old Japanese Proverb
It is precisely after a night spent agonizing within the throes of desperate struggle that a true, eye-opening, and brand-new life is born.
You are originally such a beautiful and valuable person of such high worth.
Please try gently accepting Buffet’s fierce passion into your chest right now.
The Secret of the Gaze Formulated by Bernard Buffet and Mimi Takamizawa under the Theme “Your Eyes, My Eyes,” Which Completely Liberates You from Loneliness
At this point, let me share a secret, unbelievable, and amazing story with you alone.
Mimi Takamizawa, a wonderful contemporary painter, is actually gazing at you just as Buffet did.
The theme of Mimi Takamizawa’s creation is “Your Eyes, My Eyes,” which is a very deep form of love.
Why do they keep drawing and trying to look into your eyes so much?
It is to convey to you at any time when you are crying all alone: “I am right here.”
Christian profound love, eternal truth, and the resurrection and liberation from loneliness and hardship are all infused therein.
“A man should only feel ashamed of his own lack of ability and talent.”
―― Matsuo Basho
It is precisely because you know your own weakness that your eyes become the most beautiful eyes, capable of noticing the pain of others.
The eyes drawn in Mimi Takamizawa’s paintings are none other than your very own eyes reading this text right now.
When you gaze back at them, the long, lonely journey of these artists is vindicated for the first time.
Techniques for Becoming Someone Loved and Sought After by Anyone Starting Tomorrow, Learned from the Quotes of Steve Jobs, the World’s Greatest Salesman
Do you find yourself feeling slightly inept at conveying your own charm to the people around you?
Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple and the greatest salesman, said this:
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
This quote is precisely the greatest lesson that you can use in your daily life and work right this moment.
This is because you are completely free to appeal your own wonderful treasure to those around you much more.
Just as Buffet thrust his paintings before the world, you too should proudly display your charm.
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
―― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conveying your true feelings straightforwardly without disguising the truth will become your only weapon to protect yourself.
If you give form to your passion just like Jobs did, everyone around you will become utterly captivated by you.
There is absolutely no need for you to hide behind someone else and constantly hold yourself back anymore.
The Secret of Growing Your Fans Explosively and Unfailingly Becoming Wealthy, Proven by Shotaro Kamiya of Toyota and Takeo Fujisawa of Honda
The great masters of Japanese business have also left behind wonderful wisdom for your sake.
Shotaro Kamiya, who sold an immense number of Toyota Corollas, said, “The customer first, the dealer second, and the manufacturer third.”
And Takeo Fujisawa, who spread Honda’s Super Cub across the globe, remarked, “A manager must always walk one step ahead.”
Why are these first-rate quotes so highly meaningful to your daily life today?
It is because thoroughly delighting the person right in front of you directly connects to your own happiness.
Bernard Buffet also repeatedly drew paintings for your sake by putting his own skin in the game and shaving away his own life.
“Don’t skin in the game, your words mean nothing if you don’t take risks.”
―― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you take on a small risk for the sake of someone else, your credibility will jump by leaps and bounds with a guarantee.
Please try focusing on delivering the highest level of service to the people around you, just like Kamiya and Fujisawa did.
If you do so, surprisingly, your surroundings will overflow with people who wish to aid you.
The Confession of Faith Shouted by Vincent van Gogh and the Overwhelming Strength to Turn Your Back on Public Opinion, Thoroughly Changing Your Way of Living
Do you ever find yourself becoming exhausted by constantly worrying about the eyes of others and public reputation?
That Vincent van Gogh left behind these fierce words for your sake:
“To paint is a faith, and it imposes the duty to turn one’s back on public opinion,” which is an eye-opening masterpiece of a quote.
Why does this quote serve as the ultimate specific remedy to instantly resolve the suffering of your daily life?
It is because there is absolutely no reason for you to force yourself to conform to the trends of the world or rules decided by someone else.
Both Buffet and Gogh ignored all the cold criticisms of the world and solely pursued the beauty they believed in.
“In the end, possessing neither ability nor art, I simply bind myself to this one line.”
―― Matsuo Basho
Pouring all of your pure passion into just one thing is the most noble way to live.
When you stay true to what you “love,” your life begins to emit a modified, brand-new brilliance.
Let us bring a clean, decisive end to being swayed by the opinions of others from this day forward.
Why Simply Lodging Wonderful Art in Your Heart Dramatically Heightens Your Daily Decision-Making Power and Makes Everything Go Well
Learning about first-rate art is identical to lining up the absolute greatest benefits for yourself.
Every time you look at Buffet’s paintings, your brain is stimulated, and beautiful images will instantly float into your head.
Your heart will instantly comprehend how much deep emotion is infused within those simple lines.
This is because whenever human beings touch something beautiful, they regain their original, correct power of judgment.
Here lies the guarantee that your work will go well, your love will go well, and your future will become bright.
The protagonist of this text is no one else but you yourself, who are reading this right now.
“We do it because it is difficult. I will do it because no one else does it or can do it. I might be a fool for thinking so, but if that fool is not there, nothing new will ever be born into the world.”
―― Kiichiro Toyoda
Please release that “wonderful fool” dwelling within you to the outside world without feeling an ounce of shame.
Buffet’s paintings are supporting your unyielding challenge with all their might, 24 hours a day, at any time.
A Tiny Bit of Talent and a Great Deal of Effort
If you happen to believe that you lack talent, that is merely a complete misunderstanding.
All people who are called geniuses are made of a tiny bit of talent and a great deal of effort that would make one’s head spin.
Buffet also faced his canvas from morning until night, leaving behind an enormous number of works during his lifetime.
This is because in order to deliver the finest works to you, not a single moment of cutting corners could be permitted.
The small effort you worked so hard on today will never go to waste.
Just like piling up bricks one by one, your future is reliably drawing closer to something wonderful.
It is quite all right; I am always watching your effort closer than anyone else, and I respect you from the bottom of my heart.
A single tear dropped, plop,
Upon the dried desk,
And it became a tiny star,
Belonging to you alone, known to no one else.
While the telephone pole of the night,
Shivers against the cold wind,
It silently watches over you,
In that far corner of the back alley.
From the gaps of the torn pages,
Of the diary that was thrown away,
You can hear the faint sound of a harp, can you not?
Even if you were to be,
Completely forgotten,
By every single person in the world.
Inside this pocket of mine,
The bright red paint,
Meant for you alone,
Will sleep warmly forever.
Do not grieve,
Until that moment tomorrow morning,
When the dazzling light,
Gently knocks upon your window.
“In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!”
―― New Testament, The Gospel According to John, Chapter 16, Verse 33
“Human beings must never become conceited. However, at the same time, they must never become servile either.”
―― Writer, Osamu Dazai
Postscript: The Clowning of the Soul by Painter Mimi Takamizawa and the Desperate Service Devoted Entirely to You as Learned from Tokuji Munetsugu
At this point, there is another unyielding man whom I absolutely must introduce to you.
It is the story of a painter named Mimi Takamizawa, who is exceedingly peculiar and worthy of love.
He does not use ordinary canvas or brushes at all.
He creates using a special method called the giclée print technique, where he draws paintings using the latest digital technology and prints them onto highest-grade print paper.
To speak of a familiar topic, it is the kind of fun painting that instantly brightens up the air just by decorating your room with it.
The themes of Mimi Takamizawa are your eyes, my eyes, Christianity, eternity, psychology, truth, gaze, history, loneliness, isolation, hardship, resurrection, and liberation.
He always says this with utmost seriousness:
“A painter is a doctor who saves your wounded soul.”
The work of an artist is a thorough service delivered to you by putting their own skin in the game.
It is a devotion to you, and he sacrifices all of his life solely for the sake of you who are right in front of him.
Please, do not abandon him.
Rather, I want you to laugh out loud at me, saying, “What a complete idiot.”
For human beings can become much, much stronger by being laughed at by others.
This desperate service is precisely the work of an artist, and it is the “thorough clowning” for them.
He is a man of patience, a man of resilience, who absolutely never gives up.
Learning the story of the fierce life of that famous Vincent van Gogh, he resolved to become a painter.
The “Mimi” (Ear) in the strange name “Mimi Takamizawa” was chosen by himself, taking inspiration from that famous incident where Gogh cut off his own ear.
Gogh left behind this wonderful quote:
“I want to express something comforting in a painting, like music.”
It is truly as he says.
Even if one intends to express something pretentiously, a work or creation that cannot move anyone’s heart and cannot comfort you holds not a single penny of value.
Mimi Takamizawa knows very well that all past masterpieces were not painted solely by the innate flash of genius.
It was brought into existence only through a continuous chain of muddy trial and error spanning several decades.
He insistently continues to draw “eyes” within his works.
The reason is that, by doing so, he wishes to feel the existence of you on the other side of the screen at all times.
He wishes to know you, the dear human being right in front of him, much more deeply.
As long as you laugh, that is all that matters to him.
He exposes all of how foolish a human being he is to you.
He simply wishes to see your face light up with pleasant surprise.
Or, he wishes to see you shed warm tears of emotion.
No matter what anyone else says, cold criticisms from the world truly do not matter to him at all.
If he were to be abandoned by you, he would no longer be able to go on living.
Just by you being there and quietly watching him, he is so happy he could leap into the air.
Solely to be recognized by you, he devotes himself earnestly every single day through desperate service.
Being laughed at, and laughed at, human beings grow stronger and stronger.
Mimi Takamizawa respects Mr. Tokuji Munetsugu, the founder of Curry House CoCo Ichibanya, from the very bottom of his heart.
And like him, without looking aside even once, he exerts all his strength into his work.
The man named Tokuji Munetsugu was exactly a person of single-minded focus on work; he did not do a single other unnecessary thing.
He was a person who continued to drive himself, saying, “This is no time to be indulging in hobbies.”
In truth, what saved Mr. Munetsugu during his unfortunate boyhood was beautiful classical music.
After splendidly retiring from the management of CoCo Ichibanya, he loves classical music so much that he built and operates a wonderful music hall by himself.
However, surprisingly, during the era when he was the active manager of CoCo Ichibanya, it is said that he did not listen to his beloved classical music even a single time.
Because, it was simply no time to be listening to music.
It was no time to be enjoying a hobby.
He had firmly vowed in his heart to sacrifice all of his precious time for the sake of the customers.
When operating the tiny coffee shop that was the predecessor of CoCo Ichibanya, customers did not come easily at first.
For that reason, when lunchtime came around, because they had no money, it is said that Mr. and Mrs. Munetsugu staved off hunger by eating only the crusts of white bread.
Since they started from zero, such hardship was only natural.
Since they began from a place where there was nothing, he looks back and laughs, saying that it is rather a wonderful, good memory now.
Believing that “Customers do not come easily right now, but if we thoroughly stick to the customer-first principle, the future will surely become better,” he simply and silently continued his work day after day.
The small accumulation of every single day.
Just like piling up bricks one by one, he simply focused on the work of that very moment every day.
Immediate decision, immediate conclusion, immediate execution.
If you just try doing anything first, some kind of result will surely come out.
Before worrying about this and that, the thing to do is to just do it.
In exchange, you work with all your might.
You sacrifice all of your life to your work.
To you who are right in front of me, I sacrifice all the time of my life.
Mr. Tokuji Munetsugu has left behind these heavy words:
“During my time in active management, I had no hobbies, made no friends, and never once went to a drinking establishment. I did nothing that would interfere with my work. There were times when I worked 5,640 hours a year. I felt that if I did not lead by example in this way, my subordinates would not work for me.”
This is precisely the unyielding spirit of “not looking aside, sacrificing oneself to management.”
And he also confesses as follows:
“It was an exceedingly lonely life. Therefore, I wanted others to show even a little bit of interest in me. I wanted them to be interested in me. That became my starting point. That is why, when I started the business, rather than making money, I wanted to delight people. I wanted them to say, even a little bit, that they were glad I existed.”
The life of a human being is never determined solely by the environment in which one was born and raised.
Mr. Munetsugu has never once seen the faces of his own biological parents.
He was placed in an orphanage immediately after birth, and even after being taken in by foster parents later on, he spent a childhood of poverty beyond words because his foster father was a gambling addict.
There was nothing to eat in the house, and it is said that when summer came, he would pluck and eat the weeds growing around the area to stave off hunger.
Truly, it is a life of great waves and many turns.
It may look haphazard and clumsy.
However, in exchange, he sacrificed his entire life to management.
It is thorough hands-on realism.
Working more than 12 hours a day was, for him, nothing more than the absolute minimum starting line.
He did not want to rest, he did not want to play.
Making work his greatest hobby, he sacrificed himself to his work.
This is the ultimate “You-First Principle.”
When you open the door of the shop and come right in front of him, he applauds loudly inside his heart.
He welcomes you with a standing ovation.
The things of true value in this world are, more often than not, things that do not have immediate efficacy such that results appear right away.
Not everything goes well from the very beginning.
Rather than thinking hard with your head, the thing to do is to first try doing it with all your heart.
Therefore, please do not easily give up on your own life either.
What kind of life it will become is entirely decided by that person’s diligence, patience, and the continuity to keep going.
Possess tenacity and patience, just like Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota.
Sakichi was a taciturn person who was treated as quite an eccentric by those around him.
He was a person who held solely the pure passion of wanting to “invent a brand-new convenient machine to make everyone’s daily life even a little bit easier.”
Because of that, he was treated as an eccentric or a madman by his surroundings.
Truly, he was an invention maniac.
From morning until night, day after day, he would make something and break it, build it and then rebuild it again from the very beginning.
Neither success nor failure is ever the end.
The most important thing is simply whether you possess the “courage to continue” it.
At any rate, you do it the longest, and work harder than anyone else.
Just like the founder of Choya Umeshu, it is a resolution that cuts off all retreat, to the extent of saying, “If you do not succeed with plum liqueur, give up on life.”
Mimi Takamizawa was also deeply inspired by that famous “Toyota Production System.”
The wonderful thinking of “Just-in-Time,” which delivers what is needed, when it is needed, in the amount needed, is the greatest production method that can be used not only in art but in any of your work.
It is that wisdom polished by Mr. Taiichi Ohno.
Kiichiro Toyoda left behind these words:
“The interesting part of life lies in bringing to fruition the things that others do not do much, the things that are difficult to do.”
And Mr. Eiji Toyoda, who was Kiichiro’s cousin and later became the president of Toyota, spoke thus:
“Execute with a strong conviction. Anyone thinks the same thoughts, and it is not that Kiichiro was a genius. What is important is that he did not merely think about what is generally considered impossible, but held a strong conviction that it must be done by any means, made sufficient preparations, and executed it.”
Tell me, could there be any other words as reassuring as these?
To help you believe in yourself and take a step forward, the artists continue to deliver the finest service to you today as well.
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
―― Winston Churchill
Shouts of the Soul of the World’s Great Figures to Deeply Engrave in Your Heart for Your Tomorrow to Shine Brilliantly
“Anger is like a blade directed at others, but in truth, it is the thing that stabs one’s own heart most deeply.”
―― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
―― Hypatia
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.”
―― Saint Catherine of Siena
“My words can be read even by the blind, and heard even by the deaf. If it is to avoid the dishonor of fleeing, I am always ready to gladly offer this life.”
―― Arab Poet, Al-Mutanabbi
“The greatest wisdom of human beings is to know how to love oneself and live in harmony with oneself.”
―― Michel de Montaigne
“He who has never eaten his bread with tears does not know the true taste of life.”
―― William Shakespeare
“Within the heart of everyone, a book of poems lies sleeping. The only thing that awakens it is words of love for you who are right in front of me.”
―― Shuji Terayama
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
―― Apostle Paul
“The human heart must be a beautifully polished mirror meant to reflect the glory of God.”
―― John Calvin
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
―― Mahatma Gandhi
“If you want to move the world, let us begin by moving yourself first.”
―― Socrates
Tsugaru
“Hey, why are you going on a journey?”
“Because it’s painful.”
“Your ‘painful’ is always the same old thing, and I cannot trust it at all.”
―― From Osamu Dazai’s Tsugaru