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Indeed.

Seems to me that man has often sought after a "god" he could measure, fully comprehend or even depict or construct.

Most of the time the imaging or imagining (as in the case at hand) is an anthropomorphism of God - like Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam, beautiful but an anthropomorphism nonetheless. God is not an old gray-haired man on a cloud.

But it can also be a case of man wanting to be like God or even superior to Him - which is perilous.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. - Isaiah 14:12-14

And it can be a case of man crafting an image which he calls "god" so that he can touch it, bow before it, look at it and have some sense of a "god" that is "real" to his sensory perception. Idol worship of course is strictly forbidden, very perilous.

I find it illuminating that Aaron thought he could feast to the Lord before the golden calf and somehow that would be acceptable.

And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD.

And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. - Exodus 32:4-6

He was wrong.