Charles E. Burchfield, The Place of Drawing in the Artist's Work, 1965

“...it occurs to me that even doodles may be referred to as a drawing of a sort. In my case, doodling is a free exercise in abstraction, unpremeditated, and not a conscious expression, since it is done at a time of some other activity. It seems to me that I have doodled all my life. I recall doodling on my mother’s Sunday tablecloth before I was grade-school age. Perhaps I was born with a doodle pencil in my hand, the left one, in the same manner that a fortunate person is said to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Even while making a serious drawing it is almost impossible for me to avoid doodling on the drawing at intervals.”

Written by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) in 1965 for the publication, The Place of Drawing in an Artist's Work, published in 1968 after his death.