“Stormy Sentiments plus Buriak’s muscular deftness with paint inject his Vancouver dull-day pictures with a tone that would make the toughest of us homesick. Like the childhood belief that a landscape, detailed and intact, lies hidden behind the figures in a photograph, so do the hard textures of a city we know will reside under Buriak’s mists of paint.” (Vancouver Magazine, 1984)
“At a time when too many artists are influenced by the whims of fashion, Buriak pursues a clear and self-directed vision.” He may be seen as “some kind of anti-Cezanne. In place of sun, he posits darkness; in lieu of peace, he whips up storms.” (Mark Harris, Vanguard 1984)
“Buriak’s work is immediately accessible, and takes one off guard. It takes time to absorb, to recognize the mystery, to be enveloped. It is very difficult to make powerful statements, yet Buriak makes the difficult seem simple.” (William Featherstone, The Art Post, 1984)
“Buriak has given it (drawing) a compulsion and tension which reflect today’s complexity… this new work indicates a range of technical mastery and breadth of vision…” (Andrew Scott, The Vancouver Sun, October 1979)
“You find yourself on an emotional elevator gaining speed, losing time, breaking through the roof of the building and spinning out into the sky… This is action painting, with the kind of madness a painter must possess, a la Edvard Munch… The passion changes level… like a leap into quantum-land.” (Sherry D. Wilson, February 1988)
“It should be understood that no single exhibition, however adroitly selected, could fully convey the compulsive and lyric quality of the result of Myros Buriak’s irresistible calling. It is possible that Buriak became the city’s significant portraitist of the decade. His landscapes begin to take on the color-restrained qualities of his cityscapes; the photographic gives way to the roughly-whittled Cezannesque. One may sense Buriak’s exuberance, having found and perfected his new language, as he travels through the land and its origin.” (Ted Lindbergh, Myros Buriak, Painter, Catalog, Burnaby Art Gallery, 1988 Burnaby Art Gallery, 1988)