Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
Only a vision - that is what one must have.
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.