Quotes About Intellectual

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Copyright law is too confusing.

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

I have a curious mind.

While I support granting drug companies patents to recover their investment and encourage innovation, companies that take advantage of this goodwill to build a monopoly must be stopped.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well. Whenever he was in a group, he dominated it.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.