“It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.” GivingMeanFormCreativityStyleDetermineLimitation Author:Georges Braque
“Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.” MeanFormForceLimitsMediumsLimitationImprovisationTranscendingVery Mean Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.” MeanCreativeExcellenceLimitationDestructiveRejectsCreative Freedom Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.” MindHumansMeanAwarenessEnlightenmentAll ThingsEternityInfiniteBoundariesLimitationHuman MindTimeless Author:Frederick Lenz
“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.” MeanSoulAbleBornReturnBirthEmbracePainfulSeparationLimitationExpansionReunionDissolutionConfinementIndividuation Book:Steppenwolf Source: Steppenwolf
“The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.” WorldMeanSometimesSensesMysteriousLimitationExploring Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.” MeanPastSpiritualResultsPoetElementsNormalLimitationAtmosphereMixturesDissolution Author:Novalis