The artist's task - to build order out of chaos. Assemble the parts, looking for a common line, can be arranged. Give meaning to meaningless facts. Lay out the puzzle pieces of the world. Mix and reorganize. Combine. Mount. Screwed.
"Mona Lisa" by Leonardo - just a thousand thousand smears of paint. "David" by Michelangelo - a million blows of the hammer. Each of us is a million pieces correctly assembled into the whole, nothing more.
If you're an American male and of the Christian religion, then your father is your model for God. And if you don't know your father, if he died, left you or he's never home, what do you know about God?