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Tickled pink
You obviously don't need the analysis to see the world in front of you. However since the point is to interpret the world onto a flat plane and create the illusion of dimensionality there is obviously more than merely copying what's before your eyes.
The best painters have always combined their observations of naturalistic phenomena and incorporated these to enhance the effects they were trying to convey in the scene before them. It's been stated many times that a great painter paints not what he sees but what he knows. I teach my students not to merely copy what's in front of their eyes but to cajole, tickle, tweak, soothe, underplay and exaggerate to achieve their ends. That, in my opinion, is the art of painting.
To successfully "copy" the world in front of you, you can pick up a camera and snap away.
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