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OCR: The house of Doctor Gachet at Auvers Nevertheless his paintings clearly illustrate the differences between his style and that of the Impressionists, which allowed figures to merge into the atmosphere. Cézanne remained fundamentally attached to the subject and the form of his paintings. He never wholly succumbed to the naturalistic vision propounded by his friends, wanting instead, as Maurice Denis later commented, to make Impressionism into something as solid and durable as the great masters he saw in the museums. The critic Jules Castagnary believed that Cézanne was pursuing his beliefs to the limit and was in danger of sinking into some kind of dead-end romanticism, 'in which nature was nothing but a pretext for dreams and in which imagination was nothing but private, subjective fantasie ...