Works may refer to:
- An author's or artist's body of work of art
- Engineering structures, projects, and so on, including:
- Earthworks (engineering), created through moving soil or unformed rock
- Public works, engineering projects carried out by the state on behalf of the community
- Waterworks, another name for a water supply system
- In motorsports, works are cars sponsored and tuned by automobile manufacturers; see factory-backed
- In religion, works, deeds or actions in contrast to faith
- Good works in Christianity
- Karma, literally "deeds", in Hinduism
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We all agree now—by “we” I mean intelligent people under sixty—that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Unluckily, the matter does not end there: a rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
—Clive Bell (1881–1962)