The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.
And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.