>>3175841Not just you, Franz Kafka burned 90% of his works. Kafka was a very spiritual writer, and he destroyed his works out of the belief that he as an artist is serving the highest of all ideals rather than solely personal ideal, and therefore really can't screw it up.
Kafka did it because he tried to fulfill his artistic responsibility. This is the definition of artworks as a responsibility of the artist, as written by Tarkovsky: "Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken the wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for his own sake. What purports to be art begins to looks like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalized action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will. But in an artistic creation the personality does not assert itself it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice. We are gradually forgetting about this, and at the same time, inevitably, losing all sense of human calling."
There are 2 kinds of artists. Those who work to fulfill their artistic responsibility and those who work to fulfill their ego, which is nothing but a display of self will. If your perfectionism stems from this artistic responsibility, then it's the right thing to do. If your perfectionism stems from your ego, then you're just a selfish person, a modern artist.
