“…He learned everything from the craft, sometimes perched with vagrant painters, sometimes with the hope of the excluded inside the window, sometimes consciously. This is the moral mentality: the desire for the fullest possible cognition is a decisive moment in his oeuvre. Because this stubborn consistency has shaped his relationship with the world. His loyalty to his breed, to the Hajdús, to the ancestors of Transylvania, whose genes had reached through centuries to touch his creating hands. This unwavering attachment with which he grew his retaining roots into the interior of time led to the characteristic Hajdúság depiction of houses, people, faces, and trees. The restrained warmth of his colors, the often-praised consistency of his compositions, the special interpretation of space made it possible for his oeuvre to comply with the moral laws of loyalty, honesty, and attachment…
… Another important element of his particular art world is that he recognizes the essence, without mistake. Recognizes and highlights. Be it a water bottle, a face, a house, a black gate in Böszörmény, let there be horses in Hortobágy leaning over the saline, let there be a mountain house in Gyergyó, this is one of the basic elements of Égerház’s compositional skills. Sometimes he surrounds the pictorial essence with motifs, but only to guide our eyes more securely to what is important. Only a creator who knows and respects reality in every detail can create this. And maybe that is why we can say about his pictures: he not only gives back the landscape, the seen reality on them, but the soul of the landscape. Its inner essence…”
József Bényei
FROM FOREWORD OF GRAPHICS IMRE ÉGERHÁZI JUBILEE ALBUM, 1995