Zen Buddhism is the Chinese form of expression of Buddhism and it is the important part of our traditional culture. As a kind of thought phenomenon in Chinese cultural history, Zen Buddhism has brought deep impact on arts in the part of expression content and expression form, especially on scholar painting. It is shown in not only that the artists brought the Zen meditation and the Zen interest into their works, but also the spirit of Zen Buddhism, which changes the thinking mode of the artists and promoted the transition of the artists" aesthetic thought. Zen Buddhism has brought deep impact to scholar artists on their aesthetic temperament, thinking mode and the transmission of the implicitness.