Kingdom of Denmark

Søren Kierkegaard

Philosophy

existentialism

1813–1855

"Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being."

Niels Bohr

Philosophy

1885–1962

"It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite."

Henrik Ibsen

Entertainment

Realism

"You don't get nothing for nothing in this life."

Emil Nolde

Art

Expressionism

1867–1956

"They hover before me now in drifting color, more beautiful than I can possibly paint them.. ..I yearn for the day when I will have found my color harmonies, my harmonies."

"Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting."

Karen Blixen

Literature

1885–1962

"There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive."

Asger Jorn

Art

COBRA

1914–1973

"To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art."

Margrethe II of Denmark

archaeologist

b. 1940

"The fact that I am a woman has never really played into what I have done or not done. I have just been lucky that things have played out so that I could do things."

Georg Brandes

Literature

Naturalism

1842–1927

"The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools"

"I've been out doing 22 miles this morning."

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Politics

b. 1953

"I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy."

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Politics

b. 1964

"It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first."

Teitur Lassen

Music

b. 1977

"Teitur Lassen speaks for the broken-hearted, who, for the most part, may be too timid to speak for themselves. His first effort is shamelessly honest and hints at very beautiful things to come."

"I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit."

Flemming Rose

Politics

b. 1958

"The lesson from the Cold War is, if you give in to totalitarian impulses once, new demands follow... The West prevailed in the Cold War because we stood by our fundamental values and did not appease totalitarian tyrants."

Jesper Kyd

Music

b. 1972

"Her name is Melissa Kaplan, I've worked with her a lot and I designed the tracks with her voice in mind."

Poul Henningsen

Literature

1894–1967

"By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself."

"Perhaps our ultimate understanding of scientific topics is measured in terms of our ability to generate metaphoric pictures of what is going on. Maybe understanding is coming up with metaphoric pictures."

Hans Christian Ørsted

Science

1777–1851

"The agreement of this law with nature will be better seen by the repetition of experiments than by a long explanation."

Lars Ulrich

Music

b. 1963

"If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan."

Aage Niels Bohr

Science

1922–2009

"The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy."

Carl Nielsen

Music

1865–1931

"Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable."

Hans Christian Andersen

Literature

Romanticism

1805–1875

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

August Krogh

Education

1874–1949

"For a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied."

Camille Pissarro

Art

Impressionism

1830–1903

"many images of the painting art by Pissarro, on WikiArt"