“Try your best to enter by the narrow door.” Luke 13:22-30

Try your best.

I thought of this as I looked very carefully at the Cezanne pictures in the National Gallery.

There is one – “An avenue of trees at Chantilly” – that struck me very forcibly.

I try in my painting to get in the countryside this same subtle shade of green, blue, yellow, and brown.

I have no ambition in art, no talent, no career, therefore no jealousy of anyone; no frustrated ambition.

I try my best. It is inadequate and no one cares. What a pity one cannot achieve this equanimity in the rest of life.