It's like the same way comedies rarely win Oscars when in my opinion it's a billion per cent harder to make people genuinely laugh than it is to make them cry. For some reason ugliness seems more "deep" to critics but creating true beauty is a miracle.

but like, there's beauty everywhere... honeycombs in a beehive, shoe patterns in snow or mud, the way shadows fall across other buildings or people... little tulips turning their faces to the sun. I love your channel :)

My god. As an artist, I've STRUGGLED with "but what am I trying to SAY with this art?" for sooooo long, and it completely stops me from making art. I need to listen to this about a hundered more times.

This is brilliant, Molly, and an extremely important message. I hope everyone who sees this will take it to heart. ♥️ Thank you! 💓🌿🌹🌷🌻🌼🌸🌺🌝⭐️🌙

Beauty is where creativity starts ❤

YES!! We taureans NEED beauty! It's absolutely essential!

I AM ON A BEAUTY QUEST! 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 I love this so much. The devaluation of beauty is a huge part of our cultural sickness, and we need messages like this. Thank you for your devotion to beauty xxx

Oh how I’ve missed you & your blessed imagination🌿🌸🌿 Thank You💞

This is the most INSPIRING thing I've seen and heard this year! YES! And thank you!

Dearest molly, This was not only beautiful and had depth, but inspired and excited my witchy soul. Thank you.

I can’t wait for 28 days of Beauty to start ! 🧜🏼‍♀️🦄🐯

The lessons you teach (and yes you do "teach") are so needed in this life. I'm gonna go on a beauty quest on my next 2 days off cause I haven't stopped and done this in a while and it's much needed. Thanks Molly 💜

Beauty can muster up profound and unusual and unfamiliar emotions in a person. Beauty can make you have physical sensations, where you feel an openness glide down from your face to your neck to your chest. I have cried from enjoying the beauty of sunsets, fish, trees and the male physique. Finding beauty hugs the human spirit.

Beauty is a form of love and with out love we die

Thank you very much for this video. I was in need of a beauty quest, so I took a walk with my camera. The air was crisp, the wind was causing the remaining leaves to sing in the trees, and as I was close to returning home, I saw a Sharp-Shinned Hawk on a Red Pine branch! I definitely feel recharged and inspired.

This is a fascinating take on the idea of what beauty means. As much as we long for physical beauty in our society we also treat it as something shallow and meaningless. It is simultaneously something desirable and something you shouldn't be seen desiring. I think the importance of beauty is in the way we appreciate and enjoy the world around us. We treat beauty like a resource or a tool used in the media to advertise and influence each other, but I think beauty is valuable because it gives us a reason to love life. Experiencing beautiful things, whether it's music or a painting or a story or something else, makes life worth living. I think as a society we often try to squeeze every last ounce of worth out of things in the name of progress and success, in an economic sense as well as an emotional one, and when we do that we ruin these things. Beauty has seemed to lose its depth and meaning because we've taken it and stripped it of everything that made it sacred.

“Bodies without souls walking around”, ugh Molly I just rewatched the matrix series and honestly I thought the story was beautiful like you’re describing here, so well pointed out thank you ✨💜

In art therapy school I got the message "you purposely do things to make yourself different." It was mostly due to my culture Roma and Inuit...where beauty lives!!!

Missed You!

your story from art school reminds me of a story hila klein told on the h3 podcast years ago that has always stuck with me. she was talking about being in art school and her professor told her something like "you'll never be a good artists without suffering. if you are so happy." she went on to say how she disagrees and how it is a very nihilistic way of viewing creating and life. now she owns her own amazing and creative fashion company. so proud of her. and so proud of you! you keep strong to your beliefs - beauty does have depth! beauty has true value and possibilities. thank you!!!

Love this - thank you! You have made me think about my tendency to feel guilty about my love affair with beauty, as though it’s too frivolous a thing to devote oneself to in a serious world. But it’s actually the most serious and wonderful thing of all.

Imagine the person who took away beauty from your old teacher. Their feminine side was hurt when they spoke to you. They didn’t know they helped grow yours. Beauty is your birth right!

I love that Beauty has depth. ❤

I love this one . I’m going on a beauty quest . Right now in my home .

Dear Molly, I've been silently watching your videos for a few years now. Your videos are so wonderful, but I noticed one thing in particular: you seem to always turn the negative things people said to you into something good. The "beauty lacks depth" statement is the perfect example and I also remember other stories from older videos where you did something similiar. That really shows off your great personality, it is a skill to turn something hurtful or mean into something so powerful. That's truly so inspiring... it makes me go over my own thought patterns. I wish I could implement a similiar thinking into my own life, maybe someday! :)

Molly you’re an amazing artist! ✨⚡️The argument over beauty is giving me Art school critique flashbacks. I had a fellow classmate once tell me to burn a painting I had, and film it because “it was too beautiful and I should make better use of my intention for something more meaningful”. Meanwhile their work look like lazy crap if I’m honest. Thank you so much for this defense of beauty!✨❤️🌊✨☀️✨

“Bodies wandering around without a soul”. My intuition told me to watch one of your videos. It’s going to take some processing & maybe rewatching, but I think this is exactly what I needed to start thinking about today. Thanks

"The table is set" love love love this video

ive missed your videos so much

Honestly, I feel like calling it scavenger hunt. It brings me joy, gives me funky crow vibes, and I like dark gloomy stuffs bc there's beauty in that too. Also I'm childish and reminds of those scavenger events.

I could watch this on repeat! I am so grateful to you and your generous words of wisdom, childlike wonderment, creative enthusiasm, and overflowing support of the world and for all of us who live in it. You continue to inspire me and spark the embers of fires that have long gone out inside of me. Thank you....though, those words don't seem like enough. I am in awe of everything you do and feel so lucky to have found you when I did. Big Hugs from California XO

So wonderful to see you again! I consider myself a Priestess of Beauty, and find it to be sacred, vibrant and always healing. Blessings!

You are a truly beautiful soul and there’s nothing superficial about it. I’m a real beginner witch but I watched one of your videos and bought your book, now I’m alternating between it and your videos feeling so inspired, moved and entertained, you are just wonderful 💗

Oh my Goddess, I love this 💓 thank you SO much for sending out this message and sharing with us.. you are WISDOM & BEAUTY 🙏🏼🦋✨🌸🌙🌿💚

Holy shit I love your content. Been watching for years, since I was a baby witch, and everything you make just gets better and better. sending much love and light xoxo

Hello my Art Witch sister. Finally, I figured out why my art brings things and people to me. The magic is real.

You should make guided meditations! Your voice is amazing✨

Awww Molly love you 😍 you are soooo inspiring thank you 🙏💖

Thank you so much for this video! My soul has been screaming out for this. I am going on a beauty quest!🦇🦔🐾🌸🐇🍁❄️🐈‍⬛🌷

this was universally timed and totally needed for me in this moment. as always, you are a whimsical and inspirational witchy being. mahalo nui loa

Thank you for the reminder that beauty isn’t just to do with the body, and that beauty is our birthright. There is beauty all around.

I really needed this video. thank you. I've been struggling with depression lately and I think this is part of what I need

Wow! I had never considered beauty as a birthright! You have really given me something to chew on. As an artist, I have had simular encounters with professors. It really created a block in my art energy. It made me feel that my art was unworthy and less than if it didn't say something. I am very grateful for this video.

I love to look at pretty things,,,,,,,,

Love your videos so much

I've missed you.

I feel so inspired by the emanations of enthusiasm, love, kindness, and beauty that come from you. I’m having a tough day, and I feel my spirits rising. Thank you love 💗

Thank you Molly. This was truly beautiful and inspiring. Hugs❤

I have a similar art school story - my professor grimaced as well and told me my work looked like "pretty illustrations" not "real art" and I was like....um...I know you meant that as an insult, but that's actually what I wanted!

Loved this ... and I'm loving the book, too. Thanks for sharing, Molly.

So thought provoking Molly❤

Thank you so much - just what my soul needed!

This was so refreshing to watch....thank you.

Art school >>>> When I left art school, my painting teacher said, I lost my way. But I read Joseph Campbell and Jung so I am ok

Amo el color de tu voz, es muy suavecita

I think sometimes art can just be beautiful and it doesn’t have to mean anything! Who doesn’t need a break from the ugliness of the world?

Such a lovely video Molly, thank you!

So much love for this video

Thank you 😊

I did enjoy this video and thank you for this video I really enjoyed it a lot. When I go for my walks I take my camera with me and I take photos and eventually they end up on my facebook account. Stay safe and blessed b.

How wonderful 💖 Just what I need, it's mid winter where I live so I love this challenge. Thanks Molly.

Thank you for your beautiful art and inspiring videos 🌺💜🌺 I bought your book here In Finland from Adlibris and I love it 🌻💜👌Have a beautiful summer ❤️💐

Thank you so much for making this video. Beautiful 💖💖💖

Truly wonderful video!

Thank you for this inspiration! ✨

I have been watching you...like forever....you get more beautiful as time goes by....My art teacher in high school looked at one of my watercolors (that I was particularly proud of (hey...I was a teen) and he said..."Oh that has been done so many times before." I wish I had said to him...well think of all the different artists that have painted sunflowers in there own way. But I as a good little girl and bit my tongue. It was the 60's and his artwork (phew) was...well...not inspiring to me...I won't be mean. But do you really tell someone...well. that has been done before? I can think of so many things that people do over and over again - in their own ways. I still have that painting. It is hanging in my den and when I walk past it...I just think "Well...you certainly lasted the test of time." It still makes me happy. Oh...that nutshell is adorable. Like you!

Thank you Molly. This is amazing. And just the inspiration I needed.

thank you so much for sharing Molly. I always feel so bubbly when watching your videos. I cant wait to go on my beauty Quest!

LOVE YOU

Haha laughing at your professor's comment because... nature creates beautiful things... a flower is not a random creation of nature, it is deliberately designed by the universe to be beautiful. I do not think of beauty as a social and cultural construct as many suggest - there are "patterns of beauty" that exist in many different cultures, one changes the external part of the pattern but the essence of what is beautiful remains untouched, like symmetry. Laughing at your professor's comment because he literally said nature lacks depth LOLOLOL. I think beauty is necessary. Yes, continue creating beautiful things, please....

MOOLLLLYYYY❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Soooooo feel you on this. I’ve said before that Beauty is my true religion. It’s actually my reason for being and it does seem to be under some kind of attack, although it can’t be gotten rid of so is perverted often into something that actually does lack depth. But Beauty in and of itself as an archetype is Holy.

Thank you Molly 💗

What do you do when you can't see beauty in yourself or in others? I have very low self esteem and have suffered a lot of horrible things; including lifelong mental illness, bullying, my brothers drug addiction, abuse and more. My world seems like it has always been an ugly and terrible place to be, so I can't see beauty in anything anymore.

Hi Molly! I'm not one to reach out quickly. But I've been knocked out by a proper broken heart lately. It doesn't glisten like a broken mirror. It`s a lumpy, goopy mess that is dark and raw. I feel no magick inside and I see none outside. All I seem to think about is my great love that has put on their boots and went the other way. How uninspiring of me to have depended on their presence so much... I know time heals. But I've been wondering how magick healing can take place when there is no energy or sparkle left. Love ya x

Why do I feel like it's these art teachers (not all) that don't know the true meaning of ART?!

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For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life !

Men think of art differently from women. They also think they know it all. Glad you didn’t listen to him.

Sweetheart, if I had a dollar for every stupid critique I heard in art school, my student loans would have been paid off a long time ago.

YES!♥