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Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises made the Fiesta of San Fermin, held every July in the city of Pamplona, Spain, more famous beyond borders.  During the 2-week festival, the city is filled with people wearing white and red (a white shirt and a red scarf around a neck or a waist seem to be an official outfit for many men).

Here are some quotes by Hemingway that I have found helpful for me as I make a new year's resolution to paint every day.  They remind me to be diligent, honest, humble and determined not to give up.

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"There is no rule on how to write.  Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."

"There is nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."


Fiesta of San Fermin (Pamplona, Spain I)

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Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 11.5 x 8.25 in. (on 12 x 9 in. paper)
Mat/Frame: No
Purchase: Sold