As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Variant: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
Interview at Newsarama (15 July 2006)
Context: When I finished with Captain Marvel I had turned him from a warrior into a mystic. Adam Warlock was a mystical messiah. Where to go from there? Decided to reverse course and turn him into a suicidal paranoid/schizophrenic, which was the way I was feeling at the time. I’ve always used my work to examine what is currently going on in my own life. It’s cheaper than going to a shrink. The Death of Captain Marvel was a great way of working through my own father’s death.
The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
1911 - 1940, Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
