The Salon rejected me, then spent years pretending my paintings were a group project they never signed up for. by Édouard Manet

I said he was a genius and the academy heard: "please continue embarrassing us in public."

You know it’s bad when your friend starts a scandal and still has better taste than the judges.

The real masterpiece was watching critics panic because a painting had more confidence than they did.

Respectfully, you did make everyone else look like they were painting in sepia by accident.

They hated Olympia because she looked directly at them, which is apparently illegal in Paris.