"Er wußte von allem, was es bedeutete."*

"He knew about everything what it meant." *Janosch, Popov und die Geschichte vom Schloß/ Popov and the story of the castle

Ever since I first watched it with my eldest daughter in the 1990s this sentence has been in my mind, has been a motto. Unbiased I  try to understand.

By the way the German version has it, but the English version it is omitted - alas.

Because this is the essence of what an artist should be.