Art is a major theme in the novel, but how exactly does it connect to the smaller theme of time? Art and time go hand in hand in supporting each other. The idea of time is seen to Dorian as a bad thing, with time comes change, age, and growth. Dorian believes that with time all things that are considered beautiful lose their beauty. That age makes them ugly, “hour by  hour, and week by week, the thing upon the canvas was growing old. It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it” (89). This is connected to art because Dorian uses art a way to escape time. He sees that art can capture the beauty of something and art does not change and it does no age. That is why he puts his soul into a painting. He believes that if he can stay beautiful in the picture that he will become immortal and time will not affect his features. Branching off of time and what it does to a person, art is also used a theme for which someone lives through. The blurring of life and art connects to time because time affects someone’s life, especially what they look like. Dorian’s view on art and its relation to life was, “life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation” (94). “