Is it murder to dissect? aka "smell the roses"

AN EVENING SCENE ON THE SAME SUBJECT
By William Wordsworth (1888)

UP! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?

The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.

Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.

And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.

She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:--
We murder to dissect.

Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

On Cennini Forum, some good advice was given me...i.e. "don't over analyze... observe and paint more."

This is my personality and why I am writing a blog. The problem for me in art is that in the past I always felt I was experimenting all the time. I knew what was in my head that I wanted but I didn't know how to get that down on paper or in paint. So over and over I worked and usually felt I never achieved the effect on canvas that I wanted.

Is it "murder to dissect" when it comes to art. I would say it could be if one tries to be mechanical about painting and forgets to "smell the roses." I don't think that is possible for me now ... but I could spend too much time reading and not enough time painting and observing.

Now, with the wealth of information on Cennini ... I see that there are artists that have forged through and solved a lot of the problems already ... and developed techniques that will help me achieve the results I want. So as one who loves to read and study this new resource is in fact taking a lot of my time.

So my goal is to paint 5 days this next week at least four hours each day. I will just paint and enjoy myself. So that was good advise.

A fellow artist and I will spend time searching for ideas for painting tomorrow. Wahoo.