【正文】 it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul” (Wilde 2001, 8). This showed that, in aesthetic writer Oscar Wilde’s eye, beauty existed only in the depths of people’s feelings, and writer should call for and pursue this kind of beauty, to make it bee the supreme. The novel criticized the socalled noble ethics in the British upperclass with a keeneyed pen, at the same time the author implied his perseverant pursuit and passionate longing for beauty. The Picture of Dorian Gray described a symbolic and somewhat absurd story. The beautiful lad Dorian had two friends whose characters were extremely different: one was Lord Henry, cynical, holding the philosophy of playboy, an advocate of hedonism, and his words were no lack of wisdom and punch line. He boldly and mercilessly exposed the moral lying in society, respected all kinds of formal beauty, thought that beauty had nothing to do with morality. He took hedonism as the true meaning of life, and even to persuade people not to restrain themselves and not be bound by indulge themselves in pursuing their sensual desire。 and life being art’s best pupil, Wilde demonstrated that art had something to do with life, rather than art being selfsufficient. Literature as art, in Oscar Wilde’s eyes, was perfect expression of life. He held that “we would each one of us be wearied if art, with her fine spirit of choice and delicate instinct of selection, did not, as it were, purify it for us, and give to it a momentary perfection” (Wilde 1997, 101). This point of view was quite similar to his theory of imitation, in that it indirectly indicated that one object or function of art was to purify the world with beauty, or to create beauty so that life could imitate.Wilde insisted that art would express nothing but art itself。 the beauty and value of art do not exist in life and nature. In writing, beautiful yet untrue stories, namely “l(fā)ying” works should be advocated. Second, art itself is but the object in that art has its own independent life and value, being obligated to nothing. Only the beauty of form in art is worth seeking after. Third, art is prior to life in that life imitates art rather than life being reflected by art.Based on a general reading of Wilde’s all types of literary works, deep understanding of his artistic theories and analyzing of the morality of his works, this paper ultimately found that there were obvious contradictions within them.