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I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I don't like the intellectual label.

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.