15 Famous Artists With A Deep, Unshakeable Loathing For Their Own Work
![15 Famous Artists With A Deep, Unshakeable Loathing For Their Own Work](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/2/772102_320x180.jpg)
Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, was embarrassed by his masterworks War and Peace as well as Anna Karenina. "It is truly the most expensive prototype session in the world of music," Irish recording artist Bono said according to their 1997 album Pop.
Across every decade, each country, as well as every culture, performers have disrupted their work. Whether the underlying reason to destroy stems from artistic expression, a desire to erase prior work, emotional pain, or all the above mistakes, actors take ownership of their artwork besides creating it as well as destroying it. Learn as much about the performers who destroyed their work, like Michaelangelo to Georgia O'Keeffe, or why the highly contested street and ideological artist Banksy once said, "the urge to decimate is also an artistic urge."
It's difficult to imagine how someone can pour untold hours and unfathomable energy into something, release it to near-universal acclaim, and then despise it for the rest of their lives. That's exactly what these 14 people did:
![Apparently, John Lennon didn't like hearing his voice in songs. He'd want his voice disguised or distorted on tracks in all kinds of different ways, and the Beatles' chief audio engineer eventually came to the conclusion he just didn't like the sound of his voice.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/7/772117.jpg)
Source: CheatSheet
![Walt Disney intensely hated the Goofy cartoons. He thought they were just pointless strings of gags with no story or emotional engagement, and he only kept Goofy around because animators needed the work.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/8/772118.jpg)
Source: The Mouse Castle
![Robert Reed, AKA Mike Brady, thought The Brady Bunch was a waste of his talents. He was a Shakespearean actor, and thought TV as such was beneath him, and sitcoms were beneath TV.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/5/772115.jpg)
Source: ABC
![According to Stephen King, The Tommyknockers is an awful book. THE KNOCKERS A NOVEL He wrote it while he was addicted to cocaine and thinks that there's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/6/772116.jpg)
Source: Rolling Stone
![Vladimir Nabokov loathed Lolita. olita 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION VLADIMIR NABOKOV As soon as he was done writing it, he gathered the index cards it was written on and set them on fire. His wife Vera saw that and rescued the cards, then nagged him to polish the manuscript and make](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/4/772114.jpg)
Source: Great Artists Who Passionately Hated Their Most Famous Work
![Paul Newman thought his first Hollywood movie, The Silver Chalice, was beyond terrible. He called it the worst motion picture produced in the 1950s. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/2/772112.jpg)
Source: Google Books
![Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke despises Creep. He calls it Crap, and when fans ask the band to play it at a concert, he tells them to f**k off, leaves the stage in a huff, or calls them names.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/1/772111.jpg)
Source: 5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them
![Stairway to Heaven was an object of pure loathing for Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. He called it that bloody wedding song and said he'd break out in hives if I had to sing that song in every show. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/0/772110.jpg)
Source: 5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them
![Frank Sinatra hated My Way. He always thought that song was self-serving and self-indulgent, his daughter Tina said, adding that it stuck and he couldn't get it off his shoe. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/8/772108.jpg)
Source: BBC
![George Michael couldn't understand why people went crazy over Careless Whisper. He wrote it at 17, when he was bored on the bus, and said I'm still a bit puzzled why it's made such an impression on people. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/3/772113.jpg)
Source: The Independent
![Screenwriter Robert Towne put his dog's name on a movie instead of his own. The movie was Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and Towne hated it so much that he credited it to his dog, P.H. Vazak. The dog got an Oscar nomination.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/7/772107.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The work was physically crushing, and he describes it in his 1509 poem with lines like My haunches are grinding into my guts, my poor ass strains to work as a counterweight, every gesture](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/9/772109.jpg)
Source: Slate
![Celine Dion wasn't at all into My Heart Will Go On. hling DION MY HEART WILL GO ON (LOVE THEME FROM TITANICS When F recorded it, I didn't think about a movie; I didn't think about radio, she said. I thought, 'Sing the song, then get the heck out of](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/6/772106.jpg)
Source: Billboard
![Charles Schulz loathed the name Peanuts. PEANUTS by Schue United Feature Syndicate, his syndication service, made him use it, but he avoided it whenever he could and would just say I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/5/772105.jpg)
Source: The Atlantic
![Eric Clapton can't stand his own singing voice. I hate my singing. I don't like the way I sing. It all sounds like I'm 16 years old from Surbiton. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/772104.jpg)
Source: Gibson