This is for all the moms out there who tell their kids not to play with food. Nor open drawers. Nor go through boxes, make their hands dirty and make a mess on the floor.
Hanoch Piven‘s mom never told him any of those things. And the results showed later. It’s true that he went to the School of Visual Arts in New York, but that was later. Piven’s work won several prizes, he appeared in the media all over the world and he can also tell you what presidents, athletes and cats are made of.
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