Boot Quote by Philippe Lejeune

“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

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an…

— Karl Kraus

“Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist”

— Philippe Lejeune

“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The…

— Janet Beizer

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

— Joan Jett

I don't fetishize objects.

— Jessica Stockholder

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

“Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.”

— Esther Perel

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

“There is a schism in me, between the erotic and the intimate. One, by definition, negates the other. For me the pursuit of sensuality…

— Tobsha Learner

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

— Christian Metz