Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Technique on its own produces objects, not work that moves anyone. What separates the two is whether something of you was present while your hands were busy, and that presence cannot be faked by skill alone. People can tell, though they rarely explain, when a thing was made on autopilot.

This reaches well beyond studios. Find the part of what you do that you have started performing rather than meaning, and bring your attention back to it for one session. Care shows up in the finished thing even when nobody can point to where.