> We never took pictures of exoplanets. These pictures are illustrated and fake. The only pictures we have, are spectral lines and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets

Now you can complain about how these are unresolved, and to the extent we have maps of exoplanets, they're very low resolution reconstructions of temperature, but we do have pictures.