"His works reflect a belief that art can be an effective medium for awakening consciousness... a genuine cultural revolution through art can help people pull themselves out of their despondency and feeling of powerlessness."
- Amanda Watson, South China Morning Post
"The rawness of Garibay's images is immediately arresting to the eye... colors and hues are rich; the surface textures seem to cry out, even bleed his message (not one that is entirely direct or facile). One has to think carefully on his works. His overlayings of images, a common device, for example, suggest to the viewer that behind each surface image is much, much more to be revealed."
- Ian Findlay-Brown, Editor, Asian Art News
"Garibay takes to the anecdote as narrative strategy to configure social contradiction."
- Patrick Flores, Artlink, Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly
"Garibay's multi-leveled symbolism which traverses historical periods and contexts makes for an art that continually proffers new insight. His paintings strip the barnacles of conventional religiosity, explode long-held conservative myths, and come up with fresh ways of engagement with religious issues through the power of art."
- Alice G. Guillermo, Asian Art News
"Beyond the 'its good to kill and its good to be rich' brands of culture and cultural practices and aspirations built from materials beyond the immediate purview of the Filipino bourgeois mainstream nationalism... It is with such materials, both those aspects of the people's lives seeking liberation, and those aspects of social life which delay social justice, that Garibay renders his images."
- Jonathan Beller, Kristology and Radical Communion: Works of Emmanuel Garibay
