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

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

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'.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.