John Dewey systematically discusses art in his representative work of aesthetics, Art as Experience. He understands art from experience and believes that art is a kind of perfect and strengthened experience, which is connected with daily experience rather than separate from it. Dewey believed that not only art itself was instructive, but that the principles and methods of artistic creation could be extended to all education. Dewey's view of art illustrates why and how schools should pay attention to "art education" as a necessary education, rather than ignoring it as a superfluous one. Moreover, Dewey's artistic thoughts also help us to better understand "the art of education" from such aspects as the concept of active work, the correlation between interest and effort, and the unity of teaching materials and methods. Starting from Dewey's art theory, we can get a better grasp of the relationship between art and education, as well as Dewey's educational theory.