I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller – to find out how they are.” – Richard Avedon They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. It isolates people from their environment. “Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.” – Karl Kraus He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.” – Walter Benjamin

“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. “We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.” – Warren Buffett “The one you love is closer than you think.” – Unknown