A Doodle (n.) is art made on the condition that it does not count.
A Doodle (n.) is always a cube, a spiral or an eye, as if everyone got the same bored instructions.
A Doodle (n.) gets done by the hand while the face pretends to listen.
A Doodle (n.) is like the noise an engine makes at a red light.
A Plan (n.) is the enjoyable part of any project, which is why there are so many and so few finished things.
A Plan (n.) is a way of deciding in advance who will be at fault.
A Plan (n.) is agreed in a room by people who will not be in the room when it happens.
A Plan (n.) is any scheme which would have gone off without a hitch if it weren't for the intervention of reality.
A Portrait (n.) that is great captures a man's fullest moment, so that the painter, meeting him again in life, thinks he sees a caricature.
A Portrait (n.) is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth.
Portrait (n.) is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
The Portrait (n.) is created not by compelling a sitter to remain as stationary as possible. Rather, it is valuable to keep the sitter moving and talking and unconscious of being painted... not to extract some essence, but to establish, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.
A Sketch (n.) is how an artist says something like this without committing.
A Sketch (n.) is a guess drawn fast enough to still be honest.
A Sketch (n.) is made before the artist knows anyone will look, which is the part people are buying.
A Sketch (n.) still allows the hand to be wrong, which is why it often beats the finished painting.