The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces questions what an object is wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.