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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 someone whose mind watches itself.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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.