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

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

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.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

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.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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