While you can take amazing photos with a cheap camera, it really does limit your options. My crap cell phone is decent for fuzzy, impressionistic low res quick takes, and some of them come out great. But usually I'm left wanting more!
Enjoy the new camera. The photos are great so far. The detail on the first picture looks like fine lace and I thought the second one was one of those Eastern European antique pipes.
In photography as in art - sometimes less details is so much more.
I've heard that in the past a good artist was someone, who could paint a nobleman (or woman) realistically but not too realistically.