Limitations as Tools

We're generally very unimaginative when it comes to limitations. I've seen a lot of books and heard a lot of talk about removing all limitations. This is crazy. No limitations = no life on Earth. We act as if limitations are inherently permanent and always bad. Limitations are tools, an artist's tool. We accept them in order to create something that only those limitations can make possible. Monet accepted the limitations of paint, brushes and canvas. Without that acceptance we'd never have the Water Lillies or Expression Sunrise. Bach accepted the limitations of sounds and musical instruments. Einstein accepted math and empiricism. Don't get the idea that those guys had cool tools but that being over-weight or lonely or poor are somehow bad tools. Every limitation holds the seeds of great creativity. The trick is whether we use those tools consciously or not.