Artists
- Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724–1772), noted portraitist in the United States
- John Alexander ( -1733), painter and engraver
- David Allan (1744–1796), painter of historical subjects
- Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
- Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
- Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter
- John Byrne (born 1940)
- James Cadenhead (1858–1927), painter
- George Paul Chalmers (1836–1878), painter
- Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
- Jack M. Ducker (1890-unknown), painter who specialized in highland landscapes
- Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist
- John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter
- James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter
- George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist
- Peter Howson (born 1958)
- John Kelso Hunter (1802–1873), self-taught portrait painter and author of two books
- Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
- John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948)
- James McBey (1883-1959) painter, etcher and war artist
- Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
- Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
- Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- James MacGillivray, sculptor (1856–1938)
- David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- William MacTaggart (1903–1981), landscape painter
- R. R. McIan (1803–1856), painter
- William McTaggart (1835–1910), landscape painter
- William Miller, engraver (1796–1882)
- Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter
- Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
- John Pettie (1839–1893), painter
- Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter
- John Robertson Reid (1851–1926), painter
- Alexander Runciman (1736–1785), painter of historical and mythological subjects
- Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), Scottish portrait painter
- Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
- Jack Vettriano (born 1951)
- Alison Watt (1965- ), painter
- David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter
- Christopher Wood (born 1962), contemporary abstract landscape painter
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“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The attorneys defending a criminal are rarely artists enough to turn the beautiful ghastliness of his deed to his advantage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)