Familiar Quote by Christian Metz

I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within…

— Anton Yelchin

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

“The fetish is an object that commands an emotional response and that makes us breathe life into it. Because it is an object we…

— Robert Greene

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

— Mason Cooley

I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.

— Tino Sehgal

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

— Terry Richardson

Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I…

— Rick Castro

“However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so…

— Philippe Lejeune

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for…

— Pipilotti Rist

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

— Joan Jett

I don't fetishize objects.

— Jessica Stockholder