"Only artists can ever destroy their own work without compunction, it seems. Maybe we would all feel better if sanctioned rituals existed for destroying unwanted art. As a Catholic, I learned in childhood that it was a sin to throw away a crucifix, even a broken one. If I wanted to dispose of something like that, the old nuns who taught me said, I had to burn it. I'm lapsed now, but living in our secular society, where art so often substitutes for religion, I think ceremonially incinerating excess art would make a kind of skewed sense." see also :
On A-lists and Art.